Re: 8-bit nroff fixes

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From: Pat Sullivan
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1987 11:40

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In article <760@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> jack@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jack Nelson) writes:
>
>Here is a diff -c of n10.c of nroff code (from BSD 2.9, but almost
>the same as BSD 4.3) which allows access to printer fonts above 0200;

In DWB Release 2, the '%' character is an undocumented escape character
which tells nroff to send out the following character code even if it is
greater than 0200.  If this "feature" is present in older versions, it
may be simpler than rebuilding nroff.  Following is an excerpt from our
nterm file for a LaserJet with an HP "M" cartridge; note the '%' used
to escape character codes greater than 0200:
    ...
charset
ae 1 %\327
AE 1 %\323
yn 1 %\274
bp 1 %\273
em 1 %\366
hy 1 -
\- 1 %\366
bu 1 %\374
sq 2 []
bx 1 %\374
ru 1 _
14 1 %\367
12 1 %\370
   ...

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From: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: 8-bit nroff fixes
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 07:40:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 07:40:06 1987
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Keywords: nroff laser font

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