Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!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 Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 21:15:30 GMT References: <2133@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> <1991Jun13.200408.28043@cbnewsl.att.com> <1991Jun18.172533.15829@ico.isc.com> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) > There were intermediate version(s) of nroff for which > the "terminal description" did contain widths for every character... > However, it was possible with these nroffs to set the unit width > to the printer increment, build up the character widths in > multiples of this unit, and have nroff work with variable-width > characters--*almost*. There were some bugs that prevented it from > working completely...it's been too many years since I tried it, > but I recall the final result being "so close, yet so far." T H A N K Y O U. It is with this nroff that I have been driving myself crazy. Now I can give up honorably! - 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"