fixed format displays in troff
colin
I am trying to include some formatted output from a program in a document
which is being formatted using troff. To do this I am using the .DS and .DE
macros (MM macros), e.g:
.DS
$ ls7
fred bill bert albert
harold jim egbert jane
janet john
$
.DE
I am using troff in conjunction with TranScript (from Abobe) together with
a PostScript laser printer. The TranScript system provides Times and Helvetica
proportional fonts for use with troff which consequently do not produce aligned
output in such a display.
Does anyone know a way round this problem ? Thanks in advance for any help.
g...@sun.uucp
> with TranScript (from Abobe) together with a PostScript laser printer.
> The TranScript system provides Times and Helvetica proportional fonts for
> use with troff which consequently do not produce aligned output in such a
> display.
>
> Does anyone know a way round this problem ? Thanks in advance for any help.
1) System V, Release 1 had a "cw" command that provided some sort of support
for a "constant-width" font. Unfortunately, the old-style "troff" provided
with S5R1 didn't support more than four fonts; "cw" required you to choose
whether to mount the constant-width font on font position 1, 2, or 3, so you
had your choice of giving up the regular, Italic, or boldface version of the
standard font.
2) "troff" disappeared from S5R2; you have to buy the Documenter's Workbench
software to get it. However, you then got Typesetter-Independent "troff",
which can handle more fonts simultaneously. I believe TranScript supports
translating TITROFF output to PostScript. We have a constant-width font
named "L" here (I don't know whether it comes with TranScript or not) and
that's how we produce that sort of stuff.
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ron crocker
You can do this using tbl, a program that formats data into tables.
Use the following:
.DS
$ ls7
.TS
l l l l.
fred->bill->bert->albert
harold->jim->egbert->jane
janet->john
.TE
$
.DE
where -> represents a TAB (ASCII ^I). When you format this, do
tbl filename | troff (the same old options you had)
This should give you something better.
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Chris Torek
>I am trying to include some formatted output from a program in a
Fixed width text looks awful unless you have a fixed width font.
There are some constant width troff fonts available, but I have
never found them pleasant to use (on the other hand, I switched to
TeX before trying ditroff). Your particular example is probably
best done with tables; see the tbl documentation.
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Jim Webb
> than four) in a single troff document. My environment is running
> various *troffs (troff, dvitroff, ditroff) on sun workstations, with
> a LaserWriter as an output device.
You specify fonts like zo in SVR2 ditroff:
\fHthis is Helvetica\fP and this is what we were Previously.
\f followed by a font name makes the change for single letter font names,
\f( is used for two-char names. \fP returns you to the previous font.
You can also use font numbers if you know them, or load them. For example,
1 is usually Roman, 2 is Italic, and 3 is Bold. So, you could do this:
\f1this is in roman,\f2 this is in italic, \f3and this is in bold\f1
Hope this helps.
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