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- From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
- Subject: Printing 8 bit with nroff and tab.xxx syntax
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.113338.10495@druid.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:33:38 GMT
- Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
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- I am using Esix SVR4.0.4 and I am trying to set up my printer with nroff.
- I managed to find /usr/ucblib/doctools/nterm/tab.* and have created an
- entry for my printer but I can't find any documentation on the syntax
- for this file. I tracked down all the SEE ALSOs in the nroff and troff
- man pages but no luck. Anyone know where I can find this information?
-
- I managed to figure out some of the syntax by testing and guesswork
- but I can't seem to output characters with the high bit set. I have
- tried putting the actual character (0xb3 in this case) as well as the
- octal escape version ("\263") but no luck. It just outputs a space.
- I am testing with "nroff -Tkx | hd" so I am positive that it is nroff
- which is the problem and not the other links in the chain such as
- printers, drivers etc.
-
- I am using "Unix Text Processing" by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly
- but there is no mention of any of this. Is this a reasonable book
- on the subject?
-
- Post or email, I will summarize.
-
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