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- │ WSD 4.0 - text formatter for 24 dot matrix printers │
- ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ also including │
- │ LETTER - user defined fonts for 24 dot matrix printers │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Copyright (C) 1992 Helmut Steeb
-
- This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
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-
-
- IMPORTANT: this package is for use with 24 dot matrix printers only.
- If you don't have one, you better leave the package for other people.
- Future versions may be available for other printer families, if people
- are interested.
-
- The package might especially be of use for you if you would like to
-
- - print listings (or other "raw data") at 2 columns per page (to save
- paper etc.)
-
- - print letters, manuals etc. with proportional spacing and auto
- hyphenation
-
- - print user defined fonts (old style fonts, greek, maths...).
- WSD comes with several user defined fonts, ready to use in your
- documents!
-
- Personal remark: I use WSD often to print program manuals, but also to
- print program listings (with two columns on either page, a lot of code
- fits on my desk). I have also delivered an application program manual,
- printed with WSD. Some mathematical texts were printed with WSD. The
- LETTER program even printed a banner (some meters long) for the wedding
- of friends.
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-
- Actually, the package consists of two groups of files. The first is for
- text formatting (WSD 4.0, subdirectory WSD), the other is to work on user
- defined fonts (LETTER, subdirectory LETTER). Since WSD can print the fonts
- created by LETTER, I put the files together. Use PKUNZIP with the -d option
- to unpack the two groups of files to their respective subdirectories, e.g.
-
- PKUNZIP -d WSD40
-
- The file COPYING contains the GNU General Public Licence to which the WSD
- and LETTER packages are hereby submitted.
-
- The WSD files (text formatting) are:
-
- WSD.EXE (the text formatter)
- MAKEHYPH.EXE (construct WSD hyphen tables from TeX hyphen tables)
- PROPTEST.EXE (print lines of data to measure prop. character widths)
- WSD.CFG (configuration file)
- WSD*.MSG (message files, one per language supported)
- *.FRM (format files)
- *.HYF (hyphen tables)
- *.BAT (utilities for convenient inclusion of format files)
- *.ESC (printer definition files)
- *.WID (proportional widths definition)
- *.DOC (manuals)
- *.TXT (test files to be printed)
-
- The LETTER files are:
-
- LETTER.EXE (interactively edit user defined fonts, super print, etc.)
- DLOAD.EXE (simply load font into printer memory)
- *.LET (font files, to be used by WSD also)
- LETTER.HLP (file consulted in LETTER.EXE via F1 key).
- LET-ENG.HLP (short introduction in English language)
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-
- Please consult WSD-ENG.DOC (English version) or WSD-GER.DOC (German
- version) to find out more about WSD, especially how to get a first quick
- print, how to install it, and what are all these files? If your printer is
- a NEC P6, be encouraged to use WSD straight ahead (I developed the program
- with such a printer). If not, probably the first print will not be most
- beautiful because WSD lacks some special data about your printer. This
- might especially be the case for proportional printing, hardly for listing
- printing. But have a try, and see the documentation (NEC P6 plus and
- STAR LC 24/10 are also directly supported).
-
- WSD is delivered with English messages and date/time format. To get
- everything in German language and date/time format, you can simply copy
- the file WSD-GER.MSG onto WSD.MSG (be sure to keep a copy of your
- original file WSD.MSG), or issue the command SET WSDMSG=WSD-GER.MSG. For
- detailed information see the documentation.
-
-
- To find more about LETTER... you should know that these programs
- (LETTER.EXE and DLOAD.EXE) are rather OLD (actually, the story began
- with earlier versions on a Schneider/Amstrad CPC in the 1987's). This
- means concerning LETTER.EXE that
-
- - colour use is not very sophisticated because the program was developed on
- a computer with monochrome card
- - it does not respond to your mouse. Yes, all the fonts were created via
- cursor keys! You can probably help yourself by using another package I
- heard of called ARRMOUSE (it translates mouse activity to keys).
- - the program and the help file are (almost) entirely in German
- language. So have a try. There is a short introduction in English
- in the file LET-ENG.HLP.
-
- On NEC P6 (and truly compatibles), for fun just test
-
- DLOAD -tu bodoni
- DLOAD -tu quadrat
-
- and so on for others of the *.LET files. This will load the font into
- the printer, immediately print it once and switch the printer to
- afterwards continue to print the user defined font. May be, you must
- first enable printing of user defined characters by setting up the
- printer correctly. This is the case e.g. with the NEC P6 Plus where
- normally the respective printer memory area is used as printer buffer.
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-
- Comments, requests, bug reports or other communication is appreciated.
- You are encouraged to participate in further development of WSD (printer
- support, functionality...).
-
- The programs are written in Turbo Pascal.
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-
- Helmut Steeb ┌─────┐
- Obere Waiblinger Str. 119 │ SDG │
- W-7000 Stuttgart 50 └─────┘
- GERMANY
-
- Phone : 49 - 711 / 52 39 81
- E-mail: steeb@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
- (valid at least until summer 92)
-
-