10 Aug
2020
10 Aug
'20
2:49 p.m.
I want to use my daisy wheel printer to create letters
and memos and
similar (rather simple) texts. What can I use to write the text?
I worked on a v7 system that had a troff driver for iirc Diablo 630
printers, but I don't see it in stock v7. For groff, you'd probably
hunt up a dvi-to-630 converter to do the same thing.
I think "special effects" with daisy wheel
printers are "bold" and
"underline" parts. And "double stroke" (if that's the correct
word, I
mean a space char between each char).
Depending on the environment, it may be possible to change wheels in mid
document to get italics or font changes. On a daisywheel, bold is
generally done by double striking, and if the printer is capable (the
Vector Graphic micros with their Qume Sprint daisywheel printers did
this) micro-motion in between strikes. Underscore is obviously fairly
straightforward, as are overstrikes for e.g. line-through or to
construct some special characters that might not be on the wheel, like
cent signs, section symbols.
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