Hello,
this should be the final version of the docs, I hope.
Important changes involve man/xman/groff and printer setup:
[..]
7) Printer setup is difficult. The most simple solution is to print to
a
postscript file and the use gvpm for printing. If you have installed
'printlp.exe' of 'gnugroff.zip' from 'ww.leo.org', you could try to
directly print to the local OS/2 spooler:
Excerpt from 'gnugroff.zip' README.OS2:
- New printlp and printdvi programs: Printlp captures all stdin input
and spools it to "lpt1" (default) or the output device set in the
environment variable LP_DEVICE. Printdvi captures all stdin input
into a temporary file and calls the command "v" with the name as
argument (v is the viewer in emTeX) or the command in the
environment variable DVI_PRINT_COMMAND. If the command contains a
%s, this will be replaced by the temporary file name.
I recommend to add to config.sys
SET DVI_PRINT_COMMAND=VP
and to add to your lyxrc
\print_spool_command "printdvi"
or printlp for postscript printer or if you already configured a
postscript filter according to the LyX documentation. A different
solution
to try is this one from Marcus von Cube (for xephem): Create an
/* xprint.cmd */
parse arg file
file = translate( file, "\", "/" )
'@print /d:lpt2 /b' file
(you may want to change "print /d:lpt2 /b" to "printdvi") or create a
LPR-Installation:
If your %ETC%\INETD.LST contains the following line:
printer tcp lpd
and inetd is running, you should be able to use lpr:
lpr -s localhost -p lpt2 -b <filename>
It accepts "/" as path seperator.
This would mean adding
\print_spool_command "lpr"
\print_spool_printerprefix "-s localhost -p lpt2 -b"
I could not test everything myself, so please do a quick check for very
obvious errata.
Since there weren't any protests for bad english language, I propose
that someone may commit it.
Many thanks to all contributors,
Arnd Hanses
PS: As this deals with quite a number of X/2 apps and others may
involve similar problems, I would have no objections to use relevant
parts thereof for an eventual 'X/2 apps installation howto' or an
appendix to the XFree86/2 FAQ.
os2docs.tar.bz2
