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Re: Big fun with nroff on a HP Laserjet II

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From: Charles Lambert
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1988 12:33
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In article <267@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes:
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>Reverse line feed and half line reverse on the LJ are:
>
>	flr     "\033&a-1R"
>	hlr     "\033=\033&a-1R"

You can use fractional line movements as well, so

    hlr		"\033&a-.5R"

works fine;  we have it in our nterm description.  BTW,  if you use Ken's
control string,  be sure to write it exactly as he does;  if you do the
reverse-line first it fails at the top of a page.

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Charles Lambert
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From: cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Big fun with nroff on a HP Laserjet II
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Date: 8 Mar 88 12:33:20 GMT
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