🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <35@blipyramid.BLI.COM> mao@blipyramid.BLI.COM (Mike Olson) writes:
>post-processor named 'psfig.'  a key element of the software they described
>was the ditroff incantation
>
>	\X'message'

>the version of ditroff we're running doesn't support \X commands.  i've
>hacked it in, but given the complexity of the ditroff source, there are
>bound to be unwanted side effects in my implementation.  i'd like to get the
>standard implementation of this feature.  i presume it's in the latest
>dwb release.  i presume that that release is 2.0.  straighten me out on any
>of that if i'm wrong.

In the troff/README file contained in our January, 1986 version of ditroff,
it lists \X as having been added in July 1984. I'm not sure when the
comercial types at AT&T started shipping the ``january 1986'' version, but
we have had ours for at least a year and a half.

>
>i'll also need the post-processor source for imagen laser printers that
>supports this feature -- the program named 'dimp' or 'dip', depending on
>who you are.  where can i go for the latest source code?  we're fully
>licensed for dwb and berkeley unix.
>

Hmmm. unless you have a postscript interperter that produces imagen code,
psfig wont be of any use to you. It is designed to include PostScript figures,
and relys on many PostScript features. It flat-out wont run on non-postscript
devices.

I'll be posting when psfig is available for ftp and is sent to comp.sources
(shortly)

--trevor