Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ho95b.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ho95b!wcs From: wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart) Newsgroups: net.text,fa.laser-lovers,net.micro.hp Subject: HP Roman-8 character set and other Laser-Jet info wanted Message-ID: <251@ho95b.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 23:18:06 EST Article-I.D.: ho95b.251 Posted: Fri Nov 9 23:18:06 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Nov-84 20:38:26 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 31 I just got an HP Laser-Jet, and am trying to find good ways to use it. For troff, the answer is easy; Brent Byer of Textware and Ken Greer of ELAN both offer ditroff output filters. I've seen Textware's and I'm really impressed; it can handle a reasonable amount of eqn output using the raster format, and produces good clean equations as well as standard text and perfectly-aligned tbl boxes. Both companies say they don't handle pic yet, but expect to support it in a few months. For basic line-printer work, I'm trying to find a filter that will handle the Roman-8 character set, to do umlauts, accent marks, and such. This is the same character set offered on the HP-150 and several previous terminals and printers. Does anyone have a filter that will drive it? How about a good System V LP spooling interface for the laser-jet? (The 2631a and hp(1) filters can't handle the job unmodified. I'm in the process of hacking them up, but I'd prefer to minimize the total amount of re-writing I do.) On thing I couldn't figure out from the manual: if I write stuff on a line, move to a different line and back, and then write more things, will the later stuff replace the former, or will both get combined? Thanks in advance, Bill Stewart {ihnp4,allegra,houxm}!ho95b!wcs AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ -- Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ...!ihnp4!ho95b!wcs