Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!eutrc3!wswietse
From: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need help with NROFF, VI
Message-ID: <185@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 11:49:03 GMT
References: <2519@mibte.UUCP>
Organization: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, Neth.
Lines: 17
Keywords: escape character ($1b)
Summary: use a filter (this is unix)

In article <2519@mibte.UUCP>, jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes:
> Question:
>   How does one get an escape sequence out of NROFF?  I would
> like to use bold face, italics, underline etc. that are available
> from within the LaserJet.  

How about writing a small filter program that translates the
underscores and backspaces in output from nroff to printer escape 
codes? I wrote various of them for matrix printers or daisywheels, 
and it even worked with eqn. lex(1) is quite convenient for this 
sort of work, and it certainly is fast enough for printers :-)

		Wietse Venema
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