Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!uokmax!servalan!rmtodd From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0.1 Q&A Message-ID: <1991Mar23.082518.4202@servalan.uucp> Date: 23 Mar 91 08:25:18 GMT References: <119@mishima.mishima.mn.org> <12567@goofy.Apple.COM> <3007@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 37 barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: >In article <3007@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes: >> * Support for using Imagewriters with troff text processing is not >> provided with 2.0.1. Still?? I thought they said they were going to put the ImageWriter drivers back in with 2.0.1. (For those who are newcomers to A/UX, A/UX 1.1 *had* ditroff->ImageWriter II drivers. Apple took them out with 2.0. Great Ghu alone knows why. Maybe it's a plot to sell more LaserWriters.) >If anyone is lucky (:-) enough to have an ImageWriter or ImageWriter >LQ, I wrote a filter that PROPERLY handles tbl and nroff output. Hey, now, the ImageWriter II's not a bad little dot-matrix printer, especially if you can pick one up used for a couple hundred or so. (Beats the heck out of what I was using before, which was an Epson MX/80 with Graftrax :-) >"rotates" the ink on the ribbon through all 4 "colors". That is, if >you have a black ribbon, it will switch "colors" on every page, >making sure you don't use up all of the ink in just one of the four >bands of black. Damn! That's a clever little trick. I may have to implement that in my copy of the TeX DVI->ImageWriter driver... >Note I said nroff. Troff is another beast. But at least I can print >out rough drafts in an efficient manner and have the pages line up. Well, given that John Coolidge has reportedly beaten g++ into mostly working order, it may be possible to port groff to the Mac. (I tried it once, with an earlier version of g++, but ran afoul of compiler bugs...) Groff puts out TeX DVI files, and DVI->ImageWriter drivers are easy to come by.... -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp "Try looking in the Yellow Pages under 'Psychotics'." -- Michael Santana