[Coco] dw_espon notes: mroff

[Aaron Wolfe]

Hi,

Maybe I can hack the epson driver to produce more desirable results?
If you could send me a disk image with the whatever is needed to recreate
the output that would be helpful.
I'm guessing I can make the backspace, print again technique work pretty
well.

-Aaron


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>wrote:

> MROFF, a "medium" size near-clone of nroff, doesn't do a particularly
> good job driving an epson printer.
>
> The problem is bold and underline.  MROFF doesn't know about specific
> printers, it just has 2 schemes for dealing with these: 1) backspace
> and overstrike characters, or 2)carriage-return and overstrike the
> entire line.
>
> Niether work well with Drivewire's epson emulator (which at least
> doesn't barf out when it sees a backspace like my old DMP-106
> did!). Backspace and overstrike leaves only occasional extra
> characters.  Carriage-return and overstrike, as you can guess, leads
> to many blank lines in the printout.
>
> This would be less annoying, but there's a LOT of documentation in
> mroff form.  All Kreider's Clib docs for starters...
>
> I may have to modify the filter I use when dumping MROFF output to the
> screen!
>
> Willard
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