Re: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps

[Larry Kollar]

mikkel meinike wrote:

> I have a very small and old laptop computer with a very small and
> wonderful linux on it called Basiclinux 3.0. I have for some time bin
> looking for some word processing program. .... OK my local
> lug advice my to try with groff *roff. So now I am here. First I 'd
> like to know if you know if the groff packages that is in Slackware
> 4.0 can convert to postscript. (also with the Danish letters æ, ø,
> å)(I can install slackware 4.0 packages to Basiclinux 3.0)

I installed Basic Linux on a 486 some time back, but an older
version (1.0, I think?). After installing the gcc packages, I built
a current version of groff from source. It worked quite well. The
486 was fast enough to use the Vim text editor, which supports
syntax highlighting of *roff.

As Ted pointed out, groff will output PostScript (that's its default)
and should be able to handle Danish characters.

Finally, you may want to download a copy of "Unix Text
Processing" (see the URL in my signature) if you need a
tutorial.

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