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From: romwa@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Dornfeld)
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-88 23:25:29 EST
Message-ID: <1988Dec13.232529.65@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: sco xenix troff: dumb questions
References: <3336@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1761@csun.edu> <659@vector.UUCP>
Reply-To: romwa@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Mark Dornfeld)
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In article <659@vector.UUCP> chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <1761@csun.edu> cacsc222@mx.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) writes:
>>And does anyone have a TROFF driver for an HP Laserjet?  This is for SCO 2.2.1
>
>The problem is that SCO's troff is the old troff and not the device
>independant ditroff.  Old troff is hardwired for C/A/T typesetter output.
>This makes it difficult to implement other devices.  Some companies have
>done this.  I've used QMS's qtroff, and Imagen has itroff.
>
>For those of us stuck with old troff, I see three alternatives:
>
Here's a fourth alternative: SoftQuad Publishing software.
This is troff and all the preprocessors rewritten and it is
available for Xenix with a number of different output drivers.

I've been using it for a year and a half for some demanding
work and have found it to be very, very good.

SoftQuad 
720 Spadina Ave
Toronto, Ontario
Canada  M5S 2T9
416-963-8337

Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
M5S 2C6

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