10 Aug
2020
10 Aug
'20
2:01 p.m.
Hi,
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 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).
groff (or any *roff) comes to my mind. Are there other options?
regards,
chris
10 Aug
10 Aug
2:06 p.m.
Depends on the OS, and the model of the printer, and what its interface is.
If it's a printer that DEC software understands, the WPS family of word processing
software would be a nice option. There's WPS-8, WPS-PLUS for RSTS, various others
probably as well.
paul
On Aug 10, 2020, at 5:01 PM, Christian Groessler via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi,
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 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).
groff (or any *roff) comes to my mind. Are there other options?
regards,
chris
2:10 p.m.
I use `groff` for some tasks like that. If it's a simple document I'll only
ever do once, I often just open it with a text editor and set the editor to
display a bar on the 76th column, and manually hit return :)
There are probably Markdown preprocessors that either produce fixed width
text or input suitable for `groff`.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 5:01 PM Christian Groessler via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi,
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 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).
groff (or any *roff) comes to my mind. Are there other options?
regards,
chris
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.
De
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