Re: Q: nroff character sizes

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From: Lawrence Plona
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 21:15

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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
> There were intermediate version(s) of nroff for which
> the "terminal description" did contain widths for every character...
> However, it was possible with these nroffs to set the unit width
> to the printer increment, build up the character widths in
> multiples of this unit, and have nroff work with variable-width
> characters--*almost*.  There were some bugs that prevented it from
> working completely...it's been too many years since I tried it,
> but I recall the final result being "so close, yet so far."

T H A N K   Y O U.  It is with this nroff that I have been driving
myself crazy. Now I can give up honorably!

- Larry Plona
-- 

Sit denique inscriptum in fronte unius  "Let it finally be written on
cuiusque quid de rebus publicis sentiat  the forehead of each man what he
- Cicero                                 thinks of open systems"

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