[Coco] dw_espon notes: mroff

[Willard Goosey]

MROFF, a "medium" size near-clone of nroff, doesn't do a particularly
good job driving an epson printer.

The problem is bold and underline.  MROFF doesn't know about specific
printers, it just has 2 schemes for dealing with these: 1) backspace
and overstrike characters, or 2)carriage-return and overstrike the
entire line.  

Niether work well with Drivewire's epson emulator (which at least
doesn't barf out when it sees a backspace like my old DMP-106
did!). Backspace and overstrike leaves only occasional extra
characters.  Carriage-return and overstrike, as you can guess, leads
to many blank lines in the printout.

This would be less annoying, but there's a LOT of documentation in
mroff form.  All Kreider's Clib docs for starters...

I may have to modify the filter I use when dumping MROFF output to the
screen!

Willard
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