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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Nroff driver for LaserJet
Message-ID: <681@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 20:34:17 GMT
References: <262@fedeva.UUCP> <830002@bgphp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <830002@bgphp1.UUCP> rclark@bgphp1.UUCP (Roger N. Clark) writes:
>> Does anybody have an nroff driver for the LaserJet Series II?
>
>Well, this is not specifically for the Series II, but it is probably compatible.
>
>I have also been waiting for someone to post the laserjet nroff driver
>table.  HP helped me with the one below.  They sent the version
>from Bruce Townsend (Bruce had it configured for another printer).
>I figured out all the escape codes for the laser and made the
>table delow.  I gave the table to HP with the hope that they would do

In fact, Bruce has posted a newer version of his nroff table package with
support for 16-bit characters (kchar).  In his package he also included
a table for Laserjet+ making available ALL nroff charaters (provided
you have the correct font cartridge).  This table was written by me as
part of a very simple table-generating program which was very inferior
to Bruce's.  Anyway, the table is there and works perfectly on our 9000/540
running HP-UX 5.21.  I hope HP takes the various tables as a starting
point for a supported nroff table.  (I know my table has a couple of
null entries written "\200" when they really should have been "\000\0" or
something similar).  At the same time I hope HP fixes the nroff bugs
preventing you from using proportionally spaced characters ...(!)...

-Bo

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