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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Re^2: What features would you like in GNU troff?
Keywords: troff font families SoftQuad
Message-ID: <807@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 14:59:56 GMT
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In article <4771@freja.diku.dk> keld@freja.diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
>Another thing I would personallly favor is a combined nroff/troff
>product, so you can use troff on any printer, regardless how dumb it
>is. 

You can do this now--I wrote a driver for a Silver Reed 400 daisywheel
printer (does anyone else read the DAK catalogue :-) and it takes the
ditroff output file as input.  I've also done the same with NEC Spinwriters
and one of the Epson printers (I forgot which one).  The most difficult part
was the single size of everything except the sub- and super-scripts, but
it can be done with some "creative" hacking.

Sorry, I do not have the sources any more (my PC's hard disk crashed and I
lost the Silver Reed driver).

-- 
scott barman
{gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scott