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Scribe/Symbolics LGP Interface Query

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From: dw%uw-beaver
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1983 08:28
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We have a Symbolics LGP-1 used mostly for troff output.  
We have recently installed Scribe and want to interface it to the LGP.
There seem to be two possibilities:
1) Hack the Scribe font tables to have correct widths for the LGP fonts,
   use the existing CAT-4/8 driver in Scribe, and then feed the Scribe
   generated cat codes throught the same interface that we are now using
   for troff.
2) Pay US$2,500 (I recall) to Unilogic for their LGP driver software.

I would appreciate hearing comments from anyone presently using Scribe/LGP
on the viability/desirability of these two approaches.  Please reply
directly to me.  If the comments I receive are sufficiently interesting
I will post a summary to this news group.

Dave Wortman
Computer Systems Research Group
University of Toronto

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Subject: Scribe/Symbolics LGP Interface Query
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