2 .\" The above line should force the use of tbl as a preprocessor
3 .\" vim: set syntax=nroff :
4 .\" The above line should set vim into nroff mode
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24 Modified by Francisco Andrés Verdú <pandres@dragonet.es> for the grolbp
36 .\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half
37 .\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent.
39 . ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP
44 .TH GROLBP @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
48 grolbp \- groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).
60 .ie \\n(.$-1 .RI "[\ \fB\\$1\fP" "\\$2" "\ ]"
61 .el .RB "[\ " "\\$1" "\ ]"
69 .OP \-\-copies= numcopies
71 .OP \-\-papersize= paper_size
73 .OP \-\-orientation= orientation
75 .OP \-\-linewidth= width
80 .RI "[\ " files\|.\|.\|. "\ ]"
90 that produces output in CAPSL and VDM format suitable for Canon LBP\-4 and
94 For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command
99 Draw a rule (i.e.\ a solid black rectangle), with one corner at the current
100 position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the current position
105 Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its
106 argument; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal sign
107 (`=') between a long-name option and its argument.
112 .BI \-\-copies= numcopies
121 Print the document with a landscape orientation.
126 .BI \-\-papersize= paper_size
127 Set the paper size to
129 which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section
135 .BI \-\-orientation= orientation
136 Print the document with
138 orientation, which must be `portrait' or `landscape'.
143 .BI \-\-linewidth= width
144 Set the default line thickness to
146 thousandths of an em.
147 If this option isn't specified, the line thickness defaults to 0.04\~em.
153 Print the version number.
161 to the search path for font and device description files;
163 is the name of the device, usually
170 Print a short help text.
174 The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable typefaces,
175 each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic styles.
176 Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8 and
177 12 points (for Courier) resp. 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are supported,
178 each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
181 The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access these
186 tab(|) allbox center;
190 Typeface | Regular | Bold | Italic | Bold-Italic
191 Dutch | TR | TB | TI | TBI
192 Swiss | HR | HB | HI | HBI
193 Swiss Narrow | HNR | HNB | HNI | HNBI
194 Courier | CR | CB | CI |
195 Elite | ER | EB | EI |
200 The paper size can be set in the
202 file or with command line options to
204 If the paper size is specified both ways, the command line options take
205 precedence over the contents of the
207 file (this applies to the page orientation too).
211 .BR groff_font (@MAN1EXT@)
212 how to set the paper dimensions in the
217 To set the paper size in the command line, add
226 .BI \-\-papersize= paper-size
233 is in the same format as in the
238 If no paper size is specified in the
240 file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.
244 As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page
250 file or with command line options.
251 It is also case insensitive.
254 To set the orientation in the
256 file, insert a line with the following content:
260 .RB [ portrait | landscape ]
263 Only the first valid orientation command in the
268 To set the page orientation with command line options you can use the
272 option with the same parameters
281 option to force the pages to be printed in landscape.
285 In addition to the usual commands described in
286 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
290 which sets the font name sent to the printer when requesting this font.
291 The syntax of this command is:
304 .RI N\(la base_fontname \(ra\(la font_style \(ra
308 is the font name as it appears in the printers font listings without the
309 first letter, up to (but not including) the font size.
311 can be one of the letters
316 indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respectively.
319 For instance, if the printer's
321 shows font `Nelite12I.ISO_USA', the corresponding entry in the font
329 Note that you may need to modify
331 to add support for new bitmapped fonts, since the available font names and
332 font sizes of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into the
338 is identical to the font name as it appears in the printer's
339 .IR "font listing A" .
342 For instance, to select the `Swiss' font in bold style, which appears in
345 as `Swiss-Bold', the required
350 .B lbpname Swiss-Bold
364 A list of directories in which to search for the
366 directory in addition to the default ones.
369 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@)
371 .BR \%groff_font (@MAN5EXT@)
377 .B @FONTDIR@/devlbp/DESC
378 Device description file.
381 .BI @FONTDIR@/devlbp/ F
382 Font description file for font
386 .B @MACRODIR@/lbp.tmac
392 .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@),
393 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@),
394 .BR groff_out (@MAN5EXT@),
395 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
396 .BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@)