Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!kuling!irf
From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Nroff driver for LaserJet
Message-ID: <666@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 13:34:07 GMT
References: <262@fedeva.UUCP> <1170001@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1170001@hpcvlx.HP.COM> scottb@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Scott Boyd) writes:
>> Does anybody have an nroff driver for the LaserJet Series II?
>> 
>Hmmm... you really don't need a specific driver for the LaserJet to have 

Oh, yes indeed you do.  The nroff driver tables in /usr/lib/term are very
primitive and only provide support for the most trivial typesetting (at
least that's true for HP-UX).  However, there is a nroff table driver
program by Bruce Townsend.  Look in comp.sources.unix.  Bruce has in
his posting added a nroff driver table for the Laserjet+ allowing you to
print nicely looking mathematical formulas, perfectly aligned tables etc.

In fact, the driver table almost turns nroff into troff.  It should work for
Laserjet II too.  You must have access to the special character fonts in
your LJ (either cartridge or soft fonts).  We use a Math Elite cartridge.

If you want I can send the driver program and table. 

-Bo
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