Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:11232 comp.unix.wizards:14284 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!itsgw!rpi!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Comparing TeX and Roff Summary: with care TeX can do line printers (sort of) Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 89 03:34:56 GMT References: <1269@etive.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Followup-To: comp.text Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 37 In-reply-to: sam@lfcs.ed.ac.uk's message of 20 Jan 89 21:01:02 GMT [this really doesn't belong in wizard. I have directed followups to comp.text] In article <1269@etive.ed.ac.uk> sam@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (S. Manoharan) writes: >The disadvantage I found with TeX was there is >no way to get a readable output of the TeX file on an >ordinary line-printer. You can get TeX to do line-printers with care. dvidoc (PLUG: get it from the TeX depository here at Clarkson) does it. It really only works in LaTeX but can be made to work with TeX. Bascially it replaces all of the variable width fonts with mono spaced fonts and redefies some macros. Realise this is a hack: you can't do math; use pictex; use latex picture fonts. This isn't unreasonable as lineprinters don't do these sort of things. If you want my honest opinion, if you really want to use line-printers use your favorite *roff but if you primarilly use laser printers and every now and then need to generate line-printer output (say for distribution of docs on the net) then use LaTeX. It really does do the best job when it comes to typesetting text and math on a bit-image printer. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------