Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!jarthur!uunet!beartrk!ceilidh!dnichols From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: DWB for Unix-pc/3B1/Safari 4 Keywords: DWB, 3B1, troff, Money? Message-ID: <1991Feb14.034934.22716@ceilidh.beartrack.com> Date: 14 Feb 91 03:49:34 GMT References: <1991Feb4.172022.28688@kodak.kodak.com> <59@heurikon.heurikon.com> Organization: D and D Data, Vienna, VA. Lines: 48 In article <59@heurikon.heurikon.com> dklann@heurikon.heurikon.com writes: >In article <1991Feb4.172022.28688@kodak.kodak.com>, crassi@kodak.kodak.com (Charlie Crassi) writes: [...] >Yes, we do have DWB 2.0. For those who are familiar with nroff, this is the real thing. > >I have two complaints about the package: > It is incomplete. Someone chose to leave out troff. > It is distributed only with the Development Set. > >I, for one, would like the ability to generate PostScript from roff source on my UNIXpc at home. This proposal would give me the ability to do just that. I also agree with Jeffery - the price would have to be right. > >On the other hand... has anyone gotten FSF's groff ported yet? I'm running version 0.5 now. I should try to get a later version. (Anyone know what version they're up to now?) About the only problem I remember bringing it up was that one of the source files was large and complex enough so that I had to turn off optimization for that file (special mods to the Makefile), and kill off ALL daemons. I was running out of paging space. (I have since re-configured the drives, dedicating much more swap space from the disk.) I guess that I could package up the binaries, and ship them off to osu-cis, but I really would like to have a later version. (Almost everything is perfect, but there is a minor glitch once in a while, when a line is printed using two Postscript lines. If the two lines result in a word being split between the lines, the resulting single output line will have a slight gap between letters. (I received e-mail suggesting that this is from missing ligature characters, which is a good guess, but not the case with the text I am seeing.) I suspect that there is a small size difference between the Times-Roman font implementation the font-tables are coded for, and the implementation in the PacificPage Postscript cartridge that I am using in my HPLJ-II. It is still VERY nice to have. I just wish that I had documentation for DITROFF, since the gnu docs (at least in 0.5) only document the additional features in their implementation, assuming that you have the standard ditroff and docs. Papers from others using it show that it works, but I don't know how to make it work. Happy Printing DoN. -- Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 D&D Data | Voice (Eves): (703) 938-4564 Disclaimer: from here - None | Email: --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---