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Re: Q: nroff character sizes

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From: Lawrence Plona
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1991 18:11
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   Actually, I've got it working somewhat now. What I did was
   express each character in nroff units and set Char, Adj and Em
   accordingly. I think most of the remaining discrepancies come
   from faulty estimates of the individual character sizes and the
   in accuracy of the printer in moving fractions of an inch.

   I realize that all of this is a farce but its become a mini-
   obsession with me. nroff could have been written to do a lot more
   with line printers. But its too late now...


   - Larry Plona
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From: plona@romulus.rutgers.edu (Lawrence Plona)
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Subject: Re: Q: nroff character sizes
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Date: 9 Jun 91 18:11:59 GMT
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