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From: rogerc@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Roger Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Questions about nroff/troff
Message-ID: <3085@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 88 20:26:17 GMT
Reply-To: rogerc@ncrcae.UUCP (Roger Collins)
Organization: NCR - E & M Columbia
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Keywords: nroff troff laser printer

First, complaints:
When I have a table with double rules, only a single rule gets printed on 
a laser printer.  (The single rule is overstriked once.)  Also, the vertical 
lines do not meet exactly with the horizontal lines.  Tbl appears to produce 
output that says go up 1 point; draw single rule; go down 2 points and draw 
another single, thus producing the double rule.

My question:
Does nroff even TRY (given a complete /usr/lib/term/* table) to move, 
vertically or horizontally, points at a time?  Apparently not.

Another question:
Is there a way of defining a printer table for troff like /usr/lib/term/* is
to nroff?

My goal is to print fancy tables and fonts and stuff on a NCR 6416 laser
printer, preferably in the more powerful ISO mode, using tbl/eqn/nroff/troff,
and the output look more like a laser printer instead of a dumb line printer.
Is anyone doing this?  What are my alternatives?  Any public domain filters 
that replace troff?  I am running SysV.3.

--
Roger Collins
NCR - E&M Columbia - TOWER Systems Development
Address:  rogerc@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
Disclaimer:  Everything here is opinion and all opinions expressed here are 
	     my own and do not reflect those of my employer or any other
	     person or organization.