Re: pretty printer output

In article <1994Nov29.052802.6954@tfic.bc.ca> clh@tfic.bc.ca (Chris Hermansen (V)) writes: >Or you could try the really hard-core approach: we have lots of ACE >reports that write out input to tbl, the troff table preprocessor. >Beautiful reports, easy to do, but wow! the CPU and swap needed for >a big report is considerable (using GNU groff). We also use troff. We write out lines of troff commands to flat files then run those files trough the table preprocessor and send them to laser printers with the raw option set. It works perfectly. I haven't seen problems with CPU and swap on big reports. For simple reports we have a printer table set up with the escape sequeces entered in to sqitch features on and off. - Karl -- Karl R. Kokko | kkokko@harriet.rencorp.com REN Corporation - USA | (615) 353-4146