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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: [nt]roff macros for Xerox XP-24
Keywords: nroff troff macros xerox laser
Message-ID: <1873@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 19:20:29 GMT
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Reply-To: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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In article <371@nixba.UUCP> mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons) writes:
<hello, I am looking for [nt]roff macros (-man -ms -mm -me) for the Xerox XP-24
<laser printer. please e-mail

Unless I am missing something here (after a few years use of these packages
and nroff and troff), the macro packages are NOT printer specific.  The
nroff program is designed for impact type printers, ie, dot matrix and
letter quality (daisy wheel, whatever) constant spaced characters.  The
troff program was initially programmed for the C/A/T phototypesetter, so
the stuff coming out of it if very specific to the printer.  Now there is
ditroff, which is device independent troff.  We don't have that here yet,
though we will soon.  With troff or ditroff, you need a post-processor to
massage the output to make it work with particular printers.  Adobe Systems
makes the Transcript program to take troff (ptroff) and ditroff (psroff)
output and convert it to PostScript, for those kinds of printers.

So, as I said, the macro package is device independent.  You need to spruce
up your troff program's output.  Nroff cannot be used with proportional
spaced laser printers, especially PostScript.
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