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From: lewis@tramp.Colorado.EDU (LEWIS WILLIAM M JR)
Subject: Re: Q: nroff character sizes
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In article <1929@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
...
...much dribble removed
...
>To me, nroff is a dinosaur.  It has been replaced with the affore mentioned
>programs.  One should never think of nroff as being anything more than a way
>to send ASCII output to a fixed pitch device, like your CRT and daisy wheel
>printer.  Line printers are included in this as well.
>
>I said enough already.
        ^^^^^^
       too much

And what you said is hogwash.  Given the proper version of nroff, i.e. one
that uses one of the tabXXX files in /usr/lib/term with the -TXXX option,
one can produce proportional output limited only by the printing device
resolution.  It takes a bit of work, but can be done.