On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:51:04AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:31:32 -0400, Douglas A Tutty > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >>Here's my personal letter template. ... > > Thanks, those give me a nice starting point. > > LaTeX is really a godsend for geeks like me with poor artistic > skills. It gives me a set of nice, safe, acceptable-looking layouts > so I don't have to worry about fonts and margins. I no longer long > for the days when it was acceptable to buzz something out in 12-point > Elite on a 9-pin dot matrix printer and tear off the tractor feed > strips. ;)
Guess what. My only printer is an IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer (like the one pictured in the original marketing material for the origional PC). Its a 9-pin dot-matrix, tractor fed. I run latex and then either get nicely formatted plain-text, or via apsfilter and gs-gpl, I get nice fonts and everything. I still have to tear off the feed strip, it takes 17 minutes per page, and the ribbon-feed is broken so I have to sit and twiddle the ribbon knob... :) Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
