LQ-1500 nroff drivers and filters

[John Rupley]

In these days of cheap laser printers, can there be anyone who uses an
Epson LQ dot matrix device to produce text with Greek and other special
characters, equations, and relatively complex tables, yet that is clean
enough for submission to a journal?  If you are among the hard-core few
who find the Epson useful, read on.

For my own use, I put together recently the following for an Epson
LQ-1500 compatible printer:  (1) nroff driver table; (2) filter to
translate special characters to printer control strings for 24-pin
user-defined-characters; (3) filter to handle overstriking; (4)
miscellaneous files (tests, eqnchar for epson, etc.).  Neqn and tbl
produce decent output.

The public domain sources that I found for the 24-pin LQ-1500 and
compatibles (LQ-800, -1000, etc) do not handle neqn and tbl, and they
are not on uunet nor are they in the comp.sources.* archives.

If you want the package I use, email me a request -- please use the
address in the signature, rather than the news path. 

John Rupley
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