Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:43:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Keith Leonard <keithl@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ascii format Handbook??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419113533.20234A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <3538E458.21C0@earthlink.net>
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Keith Leonard wrote: > I've written to questions@ before regarding this but since I don't > download a new handbook daily it didn't bother me that no one could > respond. > > When you download the ascii format handbook it is repleat with ^H which > I have never been able to get any of 15 printers to respond properly to > and get a mutalated manuscript. > > something like this: > > ****************************** > > the ^H are in the spaces | | | > F Fr re ee eB BS SD D H Ha an nd db bo oo ok k > > The FreeBSD Documentation Project > > October 1997 > > > > A Ab bs st tr ra ac ct t > > Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day > to > day use of F Fr re ee eB BS SD D R Re el le ea as se e 2 2. .2 2. > .5 5. This manual is a w wo or rk k i in n p pr ro og gr re es ss s > and is the work of many individuals. Many sections do not yet > exist > > ********************************************* > > Obviously it is a bolding control but it doesn't seem to work. Can > anyone supply a clean file without the control codes so that a text > document can be printed cleanly (don't have postscript printer.) > > I am not on this mailing list so please respond directly. > > Thanks in Advance for your time > > -- > Keith > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Keith Leonard - keithl@earthlink.net > Sr. Technical Advisor & Webmaster - http://www.rexart.com > Rex Art Supplies > ---------------------------------------------------------- If you download the ascii version using ftp, you will indeed get these ^H symbols in the document. If you are downloading this to a unix system, you can indeed get rid of the ^H symbols by piping the output through col -b. If you download it to an MSDOS/WINDOWS system, you need a word processor like Word or WordPerfect to do a substitution on the ^H symbols. It would be possible for the people who place these documents on the server to perform this magic before it is placed there, but they just don't do that. Meanwhile there is under development a system to enable the handbook to be produced in Rich Text Format. This will make it possible to print it without losing formatting. If you have arranged for your printer to do postscript (e.g., with apsfilter) then you could download the postscript version and print it that way. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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