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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ WSD 4.0 - text formatter for 24 dot matrix printers │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ also including │
│ LETTER - user defined fonts for 24 dot matrix printers │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Copyright (C) 1992 Helmut Steeb
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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IMPORTANT: this package is for use with 24 dot matrix printers only.
If you don't have one, you better leave the package for other people.
Future versions may be available for other printer families, if people
are interested.
The package might especially be of use for you if you would like to
- print listings (or other "raw data") at 2 columns per page (to save
paper etc.)
- print letters, manuals etc. with proportional spacing and auto
hyphenation
- print user defined fonts (old style fonts, greek, maths...).
WSD comes with several user defined fonts, ready to use in your
documents!
Personal remark: I use WSD often to print program manuals, but also to
print program listings (with two columns on either page, a lot of code
fits on my desk). I have also delivered an application program manual,
printed with WSD. Some mathematical texts were printed with WSD. The
LETTER program even printed a banner (some meters long) for the wedding
of friends.
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Actually, the package consists of two groups of files. The first is for
text formatting (WSD 4.0, subdirectory WSD), the other is to work on user
defined fonts (LETTER, subdirectory LETTER). Since WSD can print the fonts
created by LETTER, I put the files together. Use PKUNZIP with the -d option
to unpack the two groups of files to their respective subdirectories, e.g.
PKUNZIP -d WSD40
The file COPYING contains the GNU General Public Licence to which the WSD
and LETTER packages are hereby submitted.
The WSD files (text formatting) are:
WSD.EXE (the text formatter)
MAKEHYPH.EXE (construct WSD hyphen tables from TeX hyphen tables)
PROPTEST.EXE (print lines of data to measure prop. character widths)
WSD.CFG (configuration file)
WSD*.MSG (message files, one per language supported)
*.FRM (format files)
*.HYF (hyphen tables)
*.BAT (utilities for convenient inclusion of format files)
*.ESC (printer definition files)
*.WID (proportional widths definition)
*.DOC (manuals)
*.TXT (test files to be printed)
The LETTER files are:
LETTER.EXE (interactively edit user defined fonts, super print, etc.)
DLOAD.EXE (simply load font into printer memory)
*.LET (font files, to be used by WSD also)
LETTER.HLP (file consulted in LETTER.EXE via F1 key).
LET-ENG.HLP (short introduction in English language)
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Please consult WSD-ENG.DOC (English version) or WSD-GER.DOC (German
version) to find out more about WSD, especially how to get a first quick
print, how to install it, and what are all these files? If your printer is
a NEC P6, be encouraged to use WSD straight ahead (I developed the program
with such a printer). If not, probably the first print will not be most
beautiful because WSD lacks some special data about your printer. This
might especially be the case for proportional printing, hardly for listing
printing. But have a try, and see the documentation (NEC P6 plus and
STAR LC 24/10 are also directly supported).
WSD is delivered with English messages and date/time format. To get
everything in German language and date/time format, you can simply copy
the file WSD-GER.MSG onto WSD.MSG (be sure to keep a copy of your
original file WSD.MSG), or issue the command SET WSDMSG=WSD-GER.MSG. For
detailed information see the documentation.
To find more about LETTER... you should know that these programs
(LETTER.EXE and DLOAD.EXE) are rather OLD (actually, the story began
with earlier versions on a Schneider/Amstrad CPC in the 1987's). This
means concerning LETTER.EXE that
- colour use is not very sophisticated because the program was developed on
a computer with monochrome card
- it does not respond to your mouse. Yes, all the fonts were created via
cursor keys! You can probably help yourself by using another package I
heard of called ARRMOUSE (it translates mouse activity to keys).
- the program and the help file are (almost) entirely in German
language. So have a try. There is a short introduction in English
in the file LET-ENG.HLP.
On NEC P6 (and truly compatibles), for fun just test
DLOAD -tu bodoni
DLOAD -tu quadrat
and so on for others of the *.LET files. This will load the font into
the printer, immediately print it once and switch the printer to
afterwards continue to print the user defined font. May be, you must
first enable printing of user defined characters by setting up the
printer correctly. This is the case e.g. with the NEC P6 Plus where
normally the respective printer memory area is used as printer buffer.
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Comments, requests, bug reports or other communication is appreciated.
You are encouraged to participate in further development of WSD (printer
support, functionality...).
The programs are written in Turbo Pascal.
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Helmut Steeb ┌─────┐
Obere Waiblinger Str. 119 │ SDG │
W-7000 Stuttgart 50 └─────┘
GERMANY
Phone : 49 - 711 / 52 39 81
E-mail: steeb@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
(valid at least until summer 92)