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From: c.ste...@cooper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: TROFF or NROFF drivers
Message-ID: <793@cooper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 10:12:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 10:12:23 1987
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Can anyone either refer me to or send me information on how
to write driver tables for NROFF or TROFF?
Craig Steinberger
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From: patw...@unirot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: TROFF or NROFF drivers
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 00:08:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 28 00:08:47 1987
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Organization: Pipeline Associates, Inc.
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Keywords: ditroff tables
Summary: where to get more info
There is a book on UNIX Text Processing coming out in about two months
that will have appendices on writing ditroff font width tables. It will
be published by Hayden/Sams; the authors are Tim O'Reilly and Dale
Dougherty of O'Reilly and Associates.
I'll post a short thing on them here over the weekend.
Pat Wood
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my mail here every few days)
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From: hxd9...@ritcv.UUCP (Herman Darmawan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.text
Subject: Troff - "Typesetter busy" message
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Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 14:31:01 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 25 14:31:01 1987
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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I ran troff but interrupted it halfway. After that, troff reports
"Typesetter busy" message. There is nobody else on the system. No
processes are using troff either. I looked for any possible lock file
that troff may maintain but no luck. I have even powered down the
system and brought it back up and it still reports the same thing.
HELP!!!
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Herman Darmawan @ Rochester Institute of Technology
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From: t...@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.text
Subject: Re: Troff - "Typesetter busy" message
Message-ID: <643@ora.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 19:20:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 19:20:15 1987
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Summary: use the -t option
In article <5...@ritcv.UUCP>, hxd9...@ritcv.UUCP (Herman Darmawan) writes:
> I ran troff but interrupted it halfway. After that, troff reports
> "Typesetter busy" message. There is nobody else on the system. No
> processes are using troff either. I looked for any possible lock file
> that troff may maintain but no luck. I have even powered down the
> system and brought it back up and it still reports the same thing.
Old troff expects to talk directly to a typesetter. Unlike most
well-behaved UNIX programs, it does not write to standard
output unless you tell it to. You must use the -t option to
send output to standard out (which means you must also have
a postprocessor to interpret the output for the typesetter
or laser printer you want to send it to). If you don't use
-t, you'll get this "Typesetter Busy" message. This (almost
certainly) has nothing to do with the fact that you
interrupted troff part way through.
The standard usage these days, since most people don't have
CAT typesetters directly connected to their systems, is:
troff -t -mx -Tsomedevice | postprocessor | lp -dsomedevice
If you need more general background on troff, it's covered
pretty thoroughly in a number of commercially available
books. I'm biased (since I helped write it), but I think
the best is UNIX Text Processing by Dale Dougherty and Tim
O'Reilly, published by Howard Sams. It's available in most
technical bookstores ($26.95). In addition, we sell it by mail
order (call 1-800-338-NUTS).
--
Tim O'Reilly (617) 527-4210
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks
981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164
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