Re: Printer memory [Was: RE: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps]

2005-10-17 Thread Miklos Somogyi
In the distant past I used troff with lots of math and printed on a PS laser with 8 MB memory and a 16 MHz processor, without the slightest problem. Nowadays there are lots of complaints regarding slw printing, for which HP's panacea is huge memory and a faster processor. Partly fair enough,

RE: Printer memory [Was: RE: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps]

2005-10-16 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, (Ted Harding) wrote: Hoping this helps, Thanks! This was exactly the kind of information I was looking for. With kind regards, Daniel de Kok ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps

2005-10-16 Thread 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 kno

RE: Printer memory [Was: RE: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps]

2005-10-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Oct-05 Daniel de Kok wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, (Ted Harding) wrote: >> The only thing I specially did (and indeed have done ever since), >> since the machine was so weak, was to buy a PostScript printer. >> With that, the PostScript output from groff went straight to the >> printer and di

Printer memory [Was: RE: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps]

2005-10-16 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, (Ted Harding) wrote: The only thing I specially did (and indeed have done ever since), since the machine was so weak, was to buy a PostScript printer. With that, the PostScript output from groff went straight to the printer and did not require conversion in the computer to an

RE: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps

2005-10-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Oct-05 mikkel meinike wrote: > Hallow > 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. That can output good looking > postscript (pdf) file. Abiword won't run

Re: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps

2005-10-16 Thread Daniel de Kok
Hi Mikkel, On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, mikkel meinike wrote: way to big and complex and I don't even do any mathematic. 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. Su