[544] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Andrew, troff, transcript
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 21 16:07:49 1996
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 16:07:22 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[538] in Release_7.7_team"
> * Teach Andrew where our Transcript fonts are:
> *.formatcommand: cat /tmp/%s.n | eqn | troff -Tpsc -F/usr/athena/lib/ps/ditroff.font/Times
> This is the answer I currently favor.
The more I think about this, the less I like the idea of Andrew
knowing where Transcript's data directory is. I think a better
solution is to add an option "-d" to psroff to output
device-independent format output instead of spooling postscript output
to the printer. So the Andrew resource would become:
*.formatcommand: eqn /tmp/%s.n | psroff -d
This is a very simple modification to psroff, and a logical extension
of how it already works. The end of the psroff script would look
like:
if test "$dioutput" = "1" ; then
$dit
elif test "$nospool" = "1" ; then
$dit | $psdit
else
$dit | $psdit | $spool
fi
Does this seem acceptable?
