Need add'l troff term support
walsh%bbn-unix at sri-unix.UUCP
walsh%bbn-unix at sri-unix.UUCP
Fri Oct 14 22:51:38 AEST 1983
From: Bob Walsh <walsh at bbn-unix>
It's really not too difficult to write nroff driving tables. If you
have access to the source for one, you can use is as a pattern for
any others you want to write. In general, the table looks like
information that describes lines per inch...
mapping from a character to a string
'a' -> width 1, 'a'
alpha -> width 1, either an escape code that accesses an
alternate character set or a sequence that uses
normal characters to imitate an alpha
The table is just an initialized C data structure which is loaded by nroff
at run time. Just compile the source and move it to /usr/lib/term. Use
the nroff documentation in volume two to help determine the order of the
characters in the driving table.
For example, if you have a spinwriter you can write driving tables for
various thimbles and foreign or mathematical character sets.
bob walsh
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