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Article #2967Re: Q: nroff character sizes
From: Roy Smith
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 23:42
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 23:42
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clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
> Troff will [use character width tables], but then the big problem is that
> troff doesn't emit ASCII.
At least in classic C/A/T troff, you can do "troff -a" to get ascii
output. Whether that can be made to be useful when printing on a dot
matrix printer with proportional spacing or not is another question.
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