-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 01-08-06  06:56 <=-   
      
    NB> I'm using MicroEMACS as my text editor, so there is no way that I    
    NB> know of to send the printer any information about fonts.   
      
    MK> Okay.  I have heard and used emacs before but never for print jobs.    
    MK> It has been such a long, long time since I had to worry about home   
    MK> printers I forgot what it would take to make them work properly without   
    MK> the need for a wordprocessor and it's associated drivers.  Sorry about   
    MK> that chief.    
      
   No problem.  :)   
      
    MK> Personally, if I were going to get back into that sort of thing,   
    MK> expecially overheads, I'd go with a suitable postscript package such as   
    MK> tetex with ghostscript and use a framebuffer console based viewer to   
    MK> get the general idea (fbgs would be good for this).  Once in ps format   
    MK> any decent printer will work with it and if not then there are some   
    MK> filters available to convert them on-the-fly so that the printer will   
    MK> understand ps.  Most lazer printers use ps by default.   
      
   I've got a HP Deskjet 680C.  It replaced an Epsom dot matrix printer.    
   :)  Haven't a clue whether it understands ps, but it probably does.  It   
   has no problem with some other programs that prepare things for   
   printing, like my music program (Noteworthy, a DOS shareware program   
   from Scotland) or my genealogy programs (also DOS, of course).   
      
    MK> However your idea is probably more suitable for the circumstance   
    MK> whereas mine would be more commercial grade.  I am obviously too   
    MK> techie minded.    
      
   And I'm only a borderline techie at best, I think.    I can get   
   pretty comfortable with the basic stuff, and get reasonably proficient   
   in any particular program that I use on a regular basis (at least as   
   long as I continue using it on a regular basis ), but I have little   
   interest in going further, generally.  Which is why (among other things)   
   I refer to myself as a Sorcerer's Apprentice (not a wizard, by any   
   means), and am very glad to have my Wizard in residence...    
      
    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.   
      
    MK> You could.  It is called Linux.  :-)   
       
   Yeah, yeah...    I meant, of course, on this computer, as it is   
   currently set up...  and the "as far as I know" is because, it could   
   very well be that the Wizard knows of some place/way to choose... but I   
   was never shown/taught it...    
      
    NB> It's larger now, now that we have a larger monitor screen...     
      
    MK> Yes but I bet you're booting to a 640x480 terminal if you are using   
    MK> DOS.     
      
   Could well be.  This not-really-a-techie really doesn't know the   
   difference... although I admit I've heard people talking about it and   
   all, and have a vague idea what it means for graphics...  :)   
      
    MK> You should come here sometime and I'll show you how great this   
    MK> linux terminal is, especially handling graphics without a GUI.  I can   
    MK> even play DVDs, not that I do but I can if I want to.   
    MK> It is to die for!  Way better then DOS.  I bet you'd really like it.   
      
   You sound like my friend Tika, who also loves Linux...  :)  I'm sure   
   that if/when the time arrives that the Wizard decides to put Linux on   
   our machines, I'll be happy enough with it...  :)  Like I've said, I   
   already know that I use some *nix commands on this machine... :)   
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
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