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From: eirikur@ddif.enet.dec.com (Eirikur Hallgrimsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Typewriter Emulation Software for the Mac?
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Date: 17 Jan 90 16:31:00 GMT
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In article <51020@bbn.COM>, levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes...
>In article <25b3ec78.6cbb@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> rcfische@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer) writes:
>|I don't beleive this is possible.  Not that the software would be especially
>|difficult to write; it probably would take only a day or two.  The problem
>|is that the ImageWriter (like most dot-matrix printers) does not print 
>|characters one at a time.  It collects an entire line of text then prints
>|it all at once.  Thus, characters are a uniform size and evenly spaced.

I don't think this is true from my own experience doing fancy things with
printers.  If it was true of the Imagewriter, it would still be perfectly
possible to fake the desired behavior by "printing" a line containing one
character at a time, or better yet, by doing something in graphics mode.

Eirikur Hallgrimsson
eh@ddif.enet.dec.com