Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!romulus.rutgers.edu!plona From: plona@romulus.rutgers.edu (Lawrence Plona) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Q: nroff character sizes Keywords: nroff term Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 19:32:57 GMT References: <1889@vidiot.UUCP> <2133@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> <1991Jun11.115142.8419@phri.nyu.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 >> nroff could have been written to do a lot more with line printers. >You're joking, right? At the time nroff was written, you were >lucky to find a line printer that could do anything fancier than print a >subset of ascii (i.e. no lower case) and do linefeeds and formfeeds. Sorry, I did not realize that nroff source was sacred and unable to be changed. -Larry Plona -- Sit denique inscriptum in fronte unius "Let it finally be written on cuiusque quid de rebus publicis sentiat the forehead of each man what he - Cicero thinks of open systems"