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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: <1876@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 89 05:22:58 GMT
References: <371@nixba.UUCP> <1873@astroatc.UUCP> <1945@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Reply-To: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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In article <1945@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) writes:
<In article <1873@astroatc.UUCP>, brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<> 
<> Nroff cannot be used with proportional
<> spaced laser printers, especially PostScript.
<> -- 
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<A little too strong here! We have done this for years using PS fonts
<on the Xerox 2700. It is tedious to set up the character table and
<needs a post-filter (at least the way I did it) but it certainly
<works.

I suppose I should have added as designed, nroff wasn't mean't for any printer
except those that I mentioned.  If anyone works hard enough at something,
one can get nroff output to work.

But, if one is going to work at nroff, it would have been better to work
with troff as it likes to work with proportional spaced fonts and variable
vertical spacing.  I don't understand why you picked on nroff, verses troff.
The only thing I can think of is that nroff outputs ASCII characters and troff
the C/A/T phototypsetter garbage.
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