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From: pso@tut.fi (Petri Solanti)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: roff
Message-ID: <5402@korppi.tut.fi>
Date: 23 Nov 88 08:28:45 GMT
References: <2133@cbnews.ATT.COM> <378@elan.UUCP> <4277@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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In article <4277@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>, keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
> In article <378@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes:
> >From article <2133@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by elk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Edwin L. King):
> >> Does anyone have or know where I can find a version of ?roff (nroff, eroff,
> >> troff, et. al) for the PC?
> >
> >NROFF/PC is $99 from Elan Computer Group, 415-322-2450.  Includes TBL,
> >NEQN, CHECKMM, MM, and MAN Macros also.

I've thought this is an uncommercial discussion arena, but I don't mind.
It's nice to know email-addresses of some people who are working in certain
companies and who bother to answer their mail. Thanks Ken!
 
> ...and since you have access to and adequate descriptions of the
> printer-driver files you can adapt it to lots of printers.
> 
> 	But it doesn't do Postscript.  Unfortunately.
> 
> (And no MS macros, either, but they're a thing of the past. Except
> here at TekLabs, where we managed to standardize on them somehow...)
> (But now everybody's using a PC-based wordprocessor, so who cares,
> anyway?!)

Elan Computer group supports also EROFF, which is a superset of ditroff
and it produces postscript ( important for us because it is our standard :-).

We use mostly MS macros and we have had no problems using them with EROFF
EXCEPT in pc environment. Yes, we have ported MS macros into pc ( they are
no more under licence ) but it was not very easy, while manuals said
completely nothing about file structures, paths etc of external macro
packages. Otherwice we have found Eroff very useful with its graphic 
features.

But KEN ..... When do we get a proper support for scandinavian characters ????

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