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Aucbvax.2549 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!DFC@MIT-MC Thu Aug 6 16:06:25 1981 Alternate troffs/Versatec fonts query From: Daniel F Chernikoff <DFC@MIT-MC> We (the Air Force Data Services Center) have a version of troff that drives a VideoComp 500 (or a Comp 80) typesetter -- written by Doug Gillmore at Univ. of Ill a while back, and hacked extensively by us. One of our remote UNIX sites (in Gunter AFB) has a version that drives a mergenthaler Linotron 202, with (I believe) 8 fonts. If you are interested enough to send me a tape I can send you a copy. We don't have a host on the net, alas.

I am also working on what I call "zero start-up nroff", which is a version of our nroff (V7-phototypesetter tape base nroff/troff) that "freezes" the process image just after a macro package has been read in, thus eliminating the extensive start-up time of parsing the macro package and setting up the temp files each time you run. It should be fully debugged in a few months. Already I notice a savings of up to two minutes with our larger macro packages, which is a considerable savings when doing a one or two page document.

Dan Chernikoff

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