Re: nroff to imagewriter?

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

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mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas) writes:

>>GNO comes with a nroff formatter.

>Will this nroff formatter provide the correct Imagewriter II printer codes
>for underlining, boldface, half-height subscripts, and font changes or
>will it simply provide a text file?

It provides the correct control codes for whatever termcap you want. Normally
it formats the file for your terminal (usually the console), but a utility
called pman is a front end to format it for the imagewriter (and then spool it
for printing)

-Phil