Re: Typewriter

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

In article <2ej0e9$ocv@ionews.io.org> taob@io.org (Brian Tao) writes:
>In article <1993Dec8.174237.25526@chemabs.uucp>, Jeffrey Smoot writes...
>> Does anyone know of a program for the GS to emulate a typewriter? The
>> use of truetype fonts would be elegant also. Thanks.

Hmm ... I'm sure I saw this somewhere, but I just can't remember anymore ...
anyway, if you're content with the built-in font, something like
cat >.printer
from say ORCA/Shell should work.

>kind of typewriter look.  :)  Why on earth would you want a GS to
>emulate a typewriter?!?

Well, to fill out forms, what else. It's a pain to have to do that with
a text editor, do a test print, see that it was wrong, try again, and again,
and again .... a program that prints out stuff as you type it (or after
every line you typed, so you can make little corrections) is great in this
case, provided you use a line-oriented printer :)

Soenke