sco xenix troff: dumb questions
Mark Dornfeld
romwa at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
Wed Dec 14 14:25:29 AEST 1988
In article <659 at vector.UUCP> chip at vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <1761 at csun.edu> cacsc222 at mx.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) writes:
>>And does anyone have a TROFF driver for an HP Laserjet? This is for SCO 2.2.1
>
>The problem is that SCO's troff is the old troff and not the device
>independant ditroff. Old troff is hardwired for C/A/T typesetter output.
>This makes it difficult to implement other devices. Some companies have
>done this. I've used QMS's qtroff, and Imagen has itroff.
>
>For those of us stuck with old troff, I see three alternatives:
>
Here's a fourth alternative: SoftQuad Publishing software.
This is troff and all the preprocessors rewritten and it is
available for Xenix with a number of different output drivers.
I've been using it for a year and a half for some demanding
work and have found it to be very, very good.
SoftQuad
720 Spadina Ave
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2T9
416-963-8337
Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
M5S 2C6
mark at utgpu!rom - or - romwa at utgpu
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