nroff - help wanted - (nf)

kim at enea.UUCP kim at enea.UUCP
Mon Jun 25 12:00:17 AEST 1984


#R:kvvax4:-40700:enea:600004:000:701
enea!kim    Jun 18 10:51:00 1984

When only a few control commands are required,
such as form feed or some special escape sequences,
you can make nroff output these by modifying the table
for the corresponding output device (at /usr/lib/term or
wherever it may be on your installation).

By mapping some of the non-ascii symbols that you cannot
produce anyway - Greek letters, math symbols etc, you can
output any desired ascii sequence.

This requires no modification of the nroff code,
and has the advantage that a page shift can be defined as one
symbol, translated to form feed for printers supporting this,
and to the relevant escape sequences for others.


                         Kim Walden
			 {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!enea!kim



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