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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.text,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Nroff driver tables format
Message-ID: <500@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 05:19:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 05:19:45 1987
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Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Keywords: nroff driver tables format
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Until we got our latest release of HP-UX (5.21) I was nroffing merrily with
a nroff table I wrote myself for the Laserjet+ emulating closely what I
would have got had I only had troff.  The HP-UX table was (almost) identical
to all other 7-bit tables published in many places (e.g. in "troff TYPESETTING
FOR UNIX(TM) SYSTEMS", Appendix C, by S.L Emerson and K. Paulsell,
Prentice-Hall, 1987, ISBN 0-13-930959-4 025).  Now, with the new release,
HP has (finally!) introduced 8 bit nroff making it possible to typeset
in other languages than English (e.g. Swedish, which has three more vowels
than English ...) the nroff table format has changed.  nroff -Tlas, where
my old tablas table should be used gives error messages "Floating exceptions"
and then bombs out. 

Is there anoone out there who knows how the new 8 bit tables should be written.
I would appreciate answer through any means (Ordinary mail, e-mail, here ...)

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Bo Thide, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 90 Uppsala, Sweden
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