Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim
From: pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: troff2lj bug
Keywords: troff troff2lj Laserjet
Message-ID: <415@ctisbv.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 18:55:22 GMT
Reply-To: pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen)
Organization: CTI Software BV, The Hague, The Netherlands
Lines: 41

This is from the README2 file:
>You might have problems using the Courier and Line Printer typefaces
>which are built into the LaserJets, particularly if (like me) you have
>an Elite font cartridge installed.  I think this is because troff2lj is
>set up for proportionally spaced fonts, and thus ignores pitch
>selection.  You could use the standard troff /usr/lib/font/ftCW file as
>the width table and make fiXX (HPfontinfo) files by hand, but because
>of the order that font attributes are checked to determine font
>selection, you might get the wrong font.  If you have problems, you
>could use nroff instead.

This is probarbly because of a bug in select.c
select.c only reads the first four bytes of the fontinfo files.
The fifth byte tells the Laserjet which typeface to use.

This is the bugfix:

*** select.c.orig	Fri Aug  5 18:24:55 1988
--- select.c	Fri Aug  5 18:22:36 1988
***************
*** 40,46 ****
  	fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", prog_name);
  	perror(path);
      } else {
! 	if (fread(info, sizeof(info), 1, fp) != 1)
  	    fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s is corrupt\n", prog_name, path);
  	fclose(fp);
      }
--- 40,46 ----
  	fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", prog_name);
  	perror(path);
      } else {
! 	if (fread(info, sizeof(struct hpfontinfo), 1, fp) != 1)
  	    fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s is corrupt\n", prog_name, path);
  	fclose(fp);
      }
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