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From: lee@puffin.uucp (Lee Moore)
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Subject: Re: [nt]roff macros for Xerox XP-24
Summary: the XP-24 must have a controller
Keywords: nroff troff macros xerox laser
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Date: 8 May 89 23:53:32 GMT
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As others have said, troff should be pretty much independent of macros.
The only case that special macros need to be used is with 4.x troff.  In
this case, one needs to re-mount the standard fonts to get troff to read
the font metrics from disk.  That's only a four line file.

As an aside, the name XP-24 doesn't say very much because "XP-24" is just the
name of the marking device.  It accepts a video-like interface puts marks on
paper.  If you want to use it from a computer, a controller must be added to
determine how it will behave.  For example, the XP-24 can be packaged
with a certain controller to produce the Xerox 3700.  With a much
different controller, it is the Xerox 3700+ (which, despite the similarity
in name, does very different things).

Lee


Lee Moore -- Xerox Webster Research Center
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