troff on HP Laserjet II - Summary

Dick Gill rg at psgdc
Thu Jun 29 08:48:08 AEST 1989


Earlier this month I posted the following request:

|
|Can an HP Laserjet II be used in lieu of a typesetter with troff?
|I am using an NCR Tower 32/600 (SysV.2) and have a variety of
|font cartridges available.
|
|Please e-mail; I will summarize to this group if there is
|interest.
|
|Thanks
|

Here is my summary:

As usual, there are always new things to learn (starting with
Mike Wescott's observation that the question should have been
posted to comp.text).  There are two flavors of software
involved here. The first is a device-independent troff (a.k.a.
ditroff) and the second is a postprocessor for the HP Laserjet
printer. Commercial vendors bundle all the needed software
into one package, while the most popular shareware product,
JetRoff, supplies only the postprocessor (they cater to people
who have ditroff as part of the Documentor's Workbench (DWB)).

A number of products were mentioned several times and with great
enthusiasm; nice to see technical users so enthusiastic about their
software tools. The products and vendors mentioned were:

      Eroff from Elan Computer Group (415) 964-2200
      TPLUS from Textware (Brent Byer @ (617) 864-8398) 
      JetRoff from PC Reasearch uunet!pcrat!jetroff
      troff from SoftQuad (416) 963-8337

With the exception of the JetRoff product, I believe that the
offerings include both a ditroff (or equivalent) and a
postprocessor for the HP Laserjet. 

My thanks to:

Jenni Hufnagle    uunet!elan!jenni
Bob Paster        swbatl!sw1sed!ucorrbp
Wolf Paul         wpn at killer.dallas.tx.us (special thanks)
Larry Campbell    campbell at bsw.com
Mike Wescott      mike.wescott at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
Joe Korty         uunet!modcomp!joe
Chris Lewis       uunet!mnetor!lsuc!eci386!clewis (HOW soon?)
Merv Graham       merv at gpstwr.UUCP (hi again)
Rich Richardson   uunet!pcrat!jetroff (for responding to my mail)
Mike Brookbank    uunet!watmath!mks!mike
Ian Darwin        uunet!sq.sq.com!ian
James Rogers      uunet!hpda!hp-ptp!jim
Tom Betz          rutgers!lilink!upaya!tbetz


It goes without saying that I am have no basis on which to make
judgements about the relative merits of these products, and am
simply reflecting the responses to my posting.

Dick
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