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Article #2982Re: Q: nroff character sizes
From: LEWIS WILLIAM M JR
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 01:17
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 01:17
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In article <1929@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
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>To me, nroff is a dinosaur. It has been replaced with the affore mentioned
>programs. One should never think of nroff as being anything more than a way
>to send ASCII output to a fixed pitch device, like your CRT and daisy wheel
>printer. Line printers are included in this as well.
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>I said enough already.
^^^^^^
too much
And what you said is hogwash. Given the proper version of nroff, i.e. one
that uses one of the tabXXX files in /usr/lib/term with the -TXXX option,
one can produce proportional output limited only by the printing device
resolution. It takes a bit of work, but can be done.
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