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Article #4070Re: [nt]roff proportional spacing and hyphenation
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 15:53
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 15:53
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> ... I reworked the nroff driver tables so
> that nroff would send a string to turn on the Diablo's built-in circuits
> for performing PS printing... it was, of course, still
> assuming constant-width characters...
Um, has it escaped your attention that an nroff driver table includes a
width table, and nroff is fairly willing to deal with characters that are
not all the same width? (I do recall some bugs down in the fine points,
but the basic logic works.)
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