Hi all,
what are the word processing options for a daisy wheel printer?
I would like to be able to write "bold face" (double stroke) and
underline some parts. I guess there aren't any other capabilities to
exploit on a daisy wheel printer.
Operating system is unixish (Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD).
Some characters that might not otherwise be available could be done with
over-strike, such as an accent mark (When you apply for a job, do you send
a RESUME?") or the tilde over N (There is an exit off of 280 that is
incorrectly labelled "LA CANADA road") The en~e character is recognized
as a
On 5/28/21 5:40 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Some characters that might not otherwise be available could be done with
> over-strike, such as an accent mark (When you apply for a job, do you
> send a RESUME?") or the tilde over N (There is an exit off of 280 that
> is incorrectly labelled "LA
On 29/05/21 2:40 am, Fred Cisin via cctech wrote:
Wordstar had some "drivers" for proportional spacing.
I kinda doubt that there are practical Windoze drivers.
Yes. I seem to recall that Wordstar had fairly sophisticated support for
printers, though you would probably still have to configure t
On 5/28/21 11:29 PM, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk wrote:
> On 29/05/21 2:40 am, Fred Cisin via cctech wrote:
>> Wordstar had some "drivers" for proportional spacing.
>> I kinda doubt that there are practical Windoze drivers.
>
> Yes. I seem to recall that Wordstar had fairly sophisticated support
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 8:26 AM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> I pretty much left the world of daisywheel printers when the first HP
> Laserjet broke onto the scene. Beautiful output--and so much faster
> and quieter!
)
Agreed, although I'd love an HP9871 for my HP9830, just to see that
mechan
On 5/29/21 2:11 AM, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote:
Operating system is unixish (Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD). MS-DOS would work,
too.
Maybe something like (g|t)roff?
Ok, so Wordstar should work. I think I have version 5 or 6 for DOS.
Were there Unix versions of WS? Or any other solution w
On Sat, 29 May 2021, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote:
Were there Unix versions of WS? Or any other solution with Unix? I prefer
the ability to log in from remote.
I think Gnu troff and/or ghostscript should have a suitable driver. Old
drivers are rarely deleted even years after they fal
On 5/29/21 12:38 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> I have a printer which consists of a Diablo 630 chassis with a dot
> matrix head. A Sanders 700. It takes little ROM cartridges for the
> fonts (alas no downloadable fonts sor graphics mode) and does up to 8
> passes to produce almost daisywheel quality ou
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On Sat, 29 May 2021, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote:
> Were there Unix versions of WS?
On Sun, 30 May 2021, dwight via cctalk wrote:
I had a Brother daisy wheel that would do a single step of the stepper
and a second strike, for bold. You need to have the right esc sequence.
Just about every printer is different until HP had a standard( pscl5 as
I recall ).
Prior to the HP PCL
On 5/29/21 6:42 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 2021, dwight via cctalk wrote:
>> I had a Brother daisy wheel that would do a single step of the stepper
>> and a second strike, for bold. You need to have the right esc
>> sequence. Just about every printer is different until HP had
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