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Re: Deskjet 500 & GS
In article <C7M4KJ.BAz@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com
(j.l.walters) writes:
>As I understand things, this is somewhat what James is attempting to do
>with his program. However, it appears that he is not going to use the
>H-P proportional fonts that John Link did with his patch to AppleWorks.
What makes you say that? Maybe you can tell me who told you I was not
going to fully support proportional fonts ;) (I already support them now,
but 80 column text in PS fonts uses up less than 1/2 the page usually).
I've looked through the PCL 5 manual I borrowed, and it mentions that I
can get character spacing info from HP, which I might just do. Either that
or I'll just hack it myself. Either way, it shouldn't be too hard to add.
>I, for one, would not pay for such a program. I can get the same
>results using ProTerm 3.0.
Well, if you say so. Maybe you should take a look at the feature list I
posted just a little back. If ProTerm 3.0 can do all that, I'll eat my
socks...
>The program that is needed, in my estimation, is a program that can
>take an ASCII file and print it in proportional fonts.
Hey, I'm working on it :)
>One thing that has to be decided is how one defines a paragraph:
>
>1. A string of ASCII characters that is ended with an end-of-line
> character i.e., ^M for Apple
> This is "simple," however, it does have the down side that a string
> can have infinite length.
This is the way teach (for example) formats its text, so I intend to support
at least this method of formatting.
>2. A set of ASCII characters that are ended with: ^M^M, ^Mspace,
> ^Mperiod, etc.
Why not just ^M^M? I assume this would be a file with 'hard' carriage
returns at the end of line, which I could just ignore when I parsed it.
>The second definition fuels my locomotive, however, not everyone's.
I'd be happy to support it, if you can explain it to me :)
> Joe Walters att!ihlpm!bird, NW 31-K14 (708) 224-7189
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