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From: wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Doing equations w/nroff on Okidata printers??
Message-ID: <416@ho95b.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-May-85 18:45:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 18:45:41 1985
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> We have discovered that our Okidata printers will not automatically
> roll the paper backwards.  This makes doing doing superscripting and 
> subscripting from nroff somewhat awkward.  However, printing equations
> from nroff on the printer is hopeless without the ability to roll the 
> paper backwards.  
Depending on how you use the oki (nroff table? postprocessor for tty37
escape sequences?) you may be able to get around it.  If you use a
postprocessor, you can use "col" to eliminate the need for reverse linefeeds.  
With no options it produces output for a "dumb" terminal; with -f it
will use the ESC-9 forward-half-linefeed as well.
-- 
			Bill Stewart	1-201-949-0705
			AT&T Bell Labs, Room 4K-435, Holmdel NJ
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