Hey Nancy!   
      
   Jan 07 23:47 06, Nancy Backus wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    NB> I see my messages FINALLY made it out of Chowda...!  Turned out to be    
    NB> a   
    NB> glitch in the way the messages were going out/being received at the    
    NB> next   
    NB> point....    
      
   Always something that is for sure.   
      
    NB> I'm using MicroEMACS as my text editor, so there is no way that I    
    NB> know   
    NB> of to send the printer any information about fonts.   
      
   Okay.  I have heard and used emacs before but never for print jobs.  It has   
   been such a long, long time since I had to worry about home printers I forgot   
   what it would take to make them work properly without the need for a   
   wordprocessor and it's associated drivers.  Sorry about that chief.   
      
   Personally, if I were going to get back into that sort of thing, expecially   
   overheads, I'd go with a suitable postscript package such as tetex with   
   ghostscript and use a framebuffer console based viewer to get the general idea   
   (fbgs would be good for this).  Once in ps format any decent printer will work   
   with it and if not then there are some filters available to convert them   
   on-the-fly so that the printer will understand ps.  Most lazer printers use ps   
   by default.   
      
   However your idea is probably more suitable for the circumstance whereas mine   
   would be more commercial grade.  I am obviously too techie minded.   
      
    NB> For looking at it for myself on the computer, I don't need to go back   
    NB> into the gui program, I just use browse, unless I need to see how it   
    NB> spaces on the transparency.   
      
   That makes sense.   
      
    NB> I just have whatever it is that the computer normally has...   
      
   I just have the sun12x22 font loaded on bootup which is all I need.  Works   
   excellent.  The standard vga one is okay on a 640x480 terminal but gets rather   
   small if a larger terminal is used, which it happens to be here (1280x1024).   
      
    NB> whatever is set up in the programs I use.  As far as I know, I don't   
    NB> have any place to choose anything else.   
      
   You could.  It is called Linux.  :-)   
      
    NB> It's larger now, now that we have a larger monitor screen...     
      
   Yes but I bet you're booting to a 640x480 terminal if you are using DOS.  You   
   should come here sometime and I'll show you how great this linux terminal is,   
   especially handling graphics without a GUI.  I can even play DVDs, not that I   
   do but I can if I want to.   
      
   It is to die for!  Way better then DOS.  I bet you'd really like it.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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