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From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Sat, 13-Aug-88 18:43:56 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Aug13.184356.1303@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. A. W. Constulting
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: troff2lj problems
References: <415@ctisbv.UUCP> <2642@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <363@uwslh.UUCP> <5334@rpp386.UUCP> <23@volition.dec.com>
Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods)

In article <23@volition.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
>In article <5334@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
># plexus, in their transfinite wisdom, renamed the old troff to `otroff'
># and the new device independent troff has become `troff'.  a quick
># check of programs SCO includes with their text processing system
># reveals that only one troff is included.  and if murphy has his way,
># it is the WRONG one ;-)

SCO were still shipping DWB 1.0, though I imagine they'll fix this slip
with the new .

>It's fairly common in recent releases of DWB for the old troff to be shipped
>as "otroff".  I wish DWB as shipped with ISC 386/ix had this feature.  As it
>is, my 386/ix system can't run troff to the HP LJ2 because even though I have
>troff2lj, I don't have otroff.  So I use nroff.  Bletcherous.
...
>Anybody got a free solution to this?  I've asked ISC for otroff, but they
>ignored me.  Sigh.

I also use nroff, though I haven't quite got my (thank god (or AT&T?),
new style) nterm entry quite correct for it.  It seems to ignore top
margin settings unless I reset it first.  [Paul, have you got a working one?]

If someone could send me the source of <<ANY>> ditroff post processor,
and docs for the printer it supports, I'll get to work on a
post-processor for the HP Laserjet II (I have indirect access to one
[without any fancy font cartidges (ie no TimesRoman) :-(].)  The (thank
ISC, online) docs for ditroff output format don't go a long way to
suggest good implementations of a post- processor.

I'm also anxiously awaiting 386/ix 1.0.6, since I have also access to a
NEC Postscript PagePrinter (but it's one floor down), and the Postscript
post-processor is rumoured to be in the next release!

>(Speaking as an individual, DEC doesn't have any 386 systems that I know of.)
Too bad, they should realy be investigating the competition.

Anyone know if Prentice-Hall will be able to publish the DWB 2.0 manuals
and guides?  ISC really need to get their own *full* set of manuals
printed.  Many corportate customers, including my clients, despise
having to go to the book store for the documentation, and then finding
it comes in paper-back only.  IBM leads this battle by a light-year!
-- 
						Greg Woods.

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