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- From: Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Looking for a good text formatter
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.152506.20418@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
- References: <mwm.2pcb@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:25:06 GMT
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- In article <mwm.2pcb@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us
- (Mike Meyer) writes:
- >Yes, you've got it exactly right. QuickWrite on the daisy-wheel
- >doesn't do italics (unless you have the italics wheel in; in which
- >case everything is italics). If you use oddball characters and your
- >printer doesn't have them, you get something else. It uses the
- >printers fonts, and won't print anything that isn't in them (unless
- >the printer driver can build them via overstrikes).
-
- Will it do 10- 12- and 15-chars per inch correctly? At 6 and 8 lines per
- inch? I've spent more time than I care to admit trying to get ProWrite
- to produce decent listings of C source code for a user group meeting
- and, well, you just hold your nose and print. ProWrite has this thing
- about spacing things badly on the printer so it matches what's on the
- screen. It can't do any printer fonts correctly at anything other
- than 10cpi. 10cpi C source doesn't often fit on 8.5 inch paper.
-
- >I paid $38 for QuickWrite at my local Amiga dealer.
-
- Oh, for a local Amiga dealer. I've heard of them. They ride Unicorns
- to work and dye eggs in the back of a big red sleigh....
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