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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: LaserJet "driver" for N/TROFF
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.165336.24925@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 27 Nov 90 16:53:36 GMT
References: <703@pscnet.UUCP>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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In article <703@pscnet.UUCP> kean@pscnet.UUCP (Kean Johnston) writes:

> I thought this little bit of information might help anyone who has ever
> wanted to print out MAN pages to an HP LaserJet, and is sick and tired
> of things going wrong, no italics, propper bolding etc.

Note that the "driver" you provide is for nroff only, NOT troff.
the -T option to troff means something very different.  The laserjet
driver you posted is quite useful, but if you really want nice manual
pages printed out, you really want to use troff, not nroff.  That way,
they look as nice as the stuff that SCO ship you, only it's big enough
to read without a magnifying glass :-)

However, the laserjet driver is very much more complicated.  It was
posted recently as PSROFF parts 1-16 in alt.sources, and available as
pub/psroff* on cs.toronto.edu among other places.  It's VERY neat.
You need fonts as well, but the TeX fonts (labrea.stanford.edu ?)
will do.  It's nicer if you have a PostScript cartridge, or if you can
get some nice SFP's from somewhere, (like buy them :-)

Brilliant stuff.  Say goodbye to typewriter-like output.

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