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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: Q: nroff character sizes
Keywords: nroff term
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Date: 8 Jun 91 03:26:53 GMT
References: <Jun.6.18.37.50.1991.13440@romulus.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Jun.6.18.37.50.1991.13440@romulus.rutgers.edu> plona@romulus.rutgers.edu (Lawrence Plona) writes:
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<   For kicks I have been trying to get nroff on my Xenix box
<to handle the proportional character mode on my dot-matrix
<printer.  I haven't had much luck in figuring out the nroff
<term variables.  I know what the documentation says but
<when does nroff use Char, Adj, Em, Hor, Ver and plot mode?
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<  All the experimenting I have done hasn't been able to
<uncover their relationships.  Has anyone used this feature?

You have to create a new nroff printer driver and set up all of the width
tables for each and every character.  Believe me, it just isn't worth the
trouble.  Nroff was basically made for fixed spaced fonts, like 10 cpi and
12 cpi.  I set up one nroff table for 15 cpi.  If you want proportional
spacing, you need to use troff.  But, I don't know of any tables for troff
to use for dot matrix printers.  Somebody has to have drivers for dot matrix
printers somewhere for a nroff or troff look-a-like.
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