Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!mtune!rkh
From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: troff and HP laser printers
Message-ID: <7897@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 14:27:54 GMT
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Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
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In article <1453@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>Speaking of troff for MSDOS... I heard a rumor a while back that
>Mortice Kern Systems bought a licence to the documentors' workbench
>package with the intent of porting it to the MSDOS world.  ....

They licensed the 'enhanced' troff package from SoftQuad in Toronto,
and ported that to DOS.  They support HP, PostScript & AT&T 495 laser 
printers.  We have installed it on some of our PC's, and it seems to
work OK.  The problem we have is that their troff generates a
proprietary intermediate code, which means we are obliged to use
their post-processors instead of being able to ship it up to our
Unix hosts for post-processing.  MKS also (at last inquiry) had not
ported the Imagen post-processor from the SoftQuad code, which would
have been helpful for us.

It's called 'SQPS' for SoftQuad Publishing Software, and I think the
cost is in the $400. range.

(This isn't any sort of official endorsement of the MKS product; our
support group has it and it appears to work OK.)


						Bob Halloran
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