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From: kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.att
Subject: device-independent troff -> raster
Summary: ditroff to my okidata printer?
Keywords: raster troff ditroff over-enthusiastic
Message-ID: <196@hico2.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 90 19:01:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.att
Organization: High Country Software
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Well, now that I've installed the new hard disk,
and gotten uPort nroff installed on my 6300+,
I'm getting itchy to figure out how to use ditroff
with this setup.  Unfortunately, all I have is an
okidata 192 printer.  But I keep thinking, if I can
write a filter which turns the instructions output
by troff into rasters, I'll have turned my printer
into a slow-crummy-but-servicable fake typesetter!
ok, so it doesn't REALLY have enough resolution, it'd
be fun to play around with anyway.

1. Has anybody out there done such a thing?  (a previewer, perhaps?)
2. How can I find an accurate discription of the output of ditroff?
   (so I can write an interpreter)
3. Is this a lot harder than it sounds?  Is there a better solution?

				Kris A. Kugel
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