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Subject: Re: fixed format displays in troff
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Date: Sun, 26-Oct-86 18:47:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 26 18:47:08 1986
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> I am trying to include some formatted output from a program in a document
> which is being formatted using troff. ... I am using troff in conjunction
> with TranScript (from Abobe) together with a PostScript laser printer.
> The TranScript system provides Times and Helvetica proportional fonts for
> use with troff which consequently do not produce aligned output in such a
> display.
> 
> Does anyone know a way round this problem ? Thanks in advance for any help.

1) System V, Release 1 had a "cw" command that provided some sort of support
for a "constant-width" font.  Unfortunately, the old-style "troff" provided
with S5R1 didn't support more than four fonts; "cw" required you to choose
whether to mount the constant-width font on font position 1, 2, or 3, so you
had your choice of giving up the regular, Italic, or boldface version of the
standard font.

2) "troff" disappeared from S5R2; you have to buy the Documenter's Workbench
software to get it.  However, you then got Typesetter-Independent "troff",
which can handle more fonts simultaneously.  I believe TranScript supports
translating TITROFF output to PostScript.  We have a constant-width font
named "L" here (I don't know whether it comes with TranScript or not) and
that's how we produce that sort of stuff.
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	Guy Harris
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