Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Nroff -> Epson FX
Keywords: UNIX, or poss even PC
Message-ID: <1502@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 16 May 91 18:01:15 GMT
References: <1991May14.192043.13244@g2.brispoly.ac.uk>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991May14.192043.13244@g2.brispoly.ac.uk> bj_stedm@g2.brispoly.ac.uk (Bruce Stedman (Hagar)) writes:
>Title says it all:
>
>I would like something to go from nroff format to EPSON FX type printer
>codes:
>Ie -	use some ^L's for page breaks,
>	use ^[E, ^[F for Bold
>	similar for Italic/underline

You want "nroff-driver" from the comp.sources.unix archives around 1988.
It's a facility to build "term" files to customize the output of nroff
for specific devices.

>Converting from nroff is all that is required, but something that worked
>with the troff text-formatting commands (IE excluding pic etc.) would be
>even better.

Well, there are two solutions: get groff, (a troff replacement), and use
its DVI output option to drive a DVI2Epson converter.  There *are* some around,
but I have no references.  The other solution is lend me your printer
and I'll get psroff to drive it.... ;-)  But either way, I think you'd
probably be pretty disappointed with the resolution.  If you get troff to
work, line drawing is trivial (groff would probably give you that).
-- 
Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Domain: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
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