Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: iroff (troff) Message-ID: <867@ecicrl.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 90 20:01:15 GMT References: <2939@fai.UUCP> Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 38 In article <2939@fai.UUCP> ljb@fai.fai.com (Larry Boggis FAI N.C.) writes: >nice printer once it works ... My question concerns the UNIX Host Software >that accompanied this printer, specifically the iroff and itroff software. >The iroff command calls troff with a '-F' option ... our troff, in all its >glory, does not support a '-F' option. The -F option tells CAT troff (not ditroff) where to find the width tables (ft? and ft?? files) for each of the fonts. It's invoked ala: -F/ftXX Troff usually has it's default widths in /usr/lib/font; -F/usr/lib/font/ftXX means the same thing. Some versions of troff support -F even if their man pages don't mention it. If your troff doesn't support -F, it'll probably support -T (What version of UNIX are you? Xenix?). -T means /usr/lib/font//ft* files. This version of troff doesn't permit you to supply arbitrary path names for the directory of width tables. If you must use -T, put the width tables in a subdirectory of /usr/lib/font, and specify the directory name (not full path) to -T. Special note: the above applies only to CAT Phototypesetter (aka CAT, aka "old") troff. New troff (aka ditroff) uses entirely different format width tables, and even tho it supports -T, it will probably not be what you're (or your software's) expecting - width table format is entirely different between old and new troff. Actually, there's also some variation between old troffs too. If you type: troff CAT Troff will say "typesetter busy" and quit, and new troff will just emit a character or two and then hang until you hit delete. If you have old troff, and -T results in some really strange character spacing, drop me a line and I'll assist. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (416)-294-9253 UUCP: uunet!utai!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Psroff mailing list (psroff-request@eci386)