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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Which DWB?
Message-ID: <728@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 12:03:21 GMT
References: <906@telly.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <906@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>... I'll probably have to settle for Laserjet emulation.
>
>- Vanilla old ditroff, still sold by SCO and others, together with the
>  publicly posted jetroff Laserjet drivers/fonts;

JetRoff runs best with the ditroff found in DWB 2.0.  I don't think
SCO is supplying DWB.  Last I heard, they were still supplying
the really old C/A/T troff.

>- Elan, chosen by SCO as its future DWB;
>
>- SoftQuad, apparently being recommended by AT&T.
>

Both are respectable packages for the money.

Urban Applied Science (800) 872-8763 also sells "Leverage"
which includes DWB 2.0 and JetRoff.  The price starts at $175.

>Since I've seen Usenet postings from the folks responsible for all three
>of these, I'd be interested in hearing what the differences are. What
>font size ranges are supported by the three? Which pre-processors and
>macro packages do they support/supply? Xwindow support for previewers?

*	In combination with DWB 2.0, JetRoff supports all of the standard
	preprocessors: grap, pic, eqn, and tbl.
*	The shareware version supplied fonts R, I, B, S, and CW in
	sizes 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,16,18,20,24, and 28.
*	The registered users version added fonts H, HI, HB, and HD, and
	sizes 4,5,32,36, and 40.  All the fonts have been tweaked.
*	Both the shareware and registered users versions of JetRoff
	support the addition of third party soft fonts.  Subject
	to the limitations of your printer, you can go up to size 120
	or so.
*	JetRoff doesn't supply any macro packages, they come with the DWB.
*	We haven't found a stable and low cost X environment yet.

-Rick

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