Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Troff Clone Message-ID: <1991Apr7.193403.23890@robobar.co.uk> Date: 7 Apr 91 19:34:03 GMT References: <720034@hpsadle.HP.COM> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 26 walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole) writes: > The Free Software Foundation distributes groff, which takes troff > input, but you'll need a dvi driver for your printer. groff also produces PostScript[TM] output directly (I don't have the original query so I don't know what the question was :-) as well as producing typewriter "nroff-style" output. It's a good quality product, if a little slow. The real problem for some is that it's written in C++ 2.0, so you need cfront 2.0 or g++ to compile it. However, it was definitely worth installing g++ (which is also free) for. I do sometimes use it with a DVI driver, because it's quicker on my HP Laserjet II, compared to PostScript with the Pacific Page cartridge, which is desperately slow. The DVI driver I use for HP Laserjet II was found in: nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at:/pub/src/Typeset/dvi2xx/ [137.208.3.4] (Thanks Ed V!) but unfortunately it doesn't do tpic specials, so groff's pic stuff doesn't work. Does anyone know of a free HPLJII DVI driver that does tpic version 2 specials ? -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)