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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23 Modified by Francisco Andrés Verdú <pandres@dragonet.es> for the grolbp
31 .\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half
32 .\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent.
34 .ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP
37 .TH GROLBP @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
40 grolbp \- groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).
51 .ie \\n(.$-1 .RI "[\ \fB\\$1\fP" "\\$2" "\ ]"
52 .el .RB "[\ " "\\$1" "\ ]"
59 .OP \-\-copies= numcopies
61 .OP \-\-papersize= paper_size
63 .OP \-\-orientation= orientation
65 .OP \-\-linewidth= width
70 .RI "[\ " files\|.\|.\|. "\ ]"
79 that produces output in CAPSL and VDM format suitable for Canon LBP\-4 and
82 For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command
86 Draw a rule (i.e.\ a solid black rectangle), with one corner at the current
87 position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the current position
90 Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its
91 argument; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal sign
92 (`=') between a long-name option and its argument.
96 .BI \-\-copies= numcopies
104 Print the document with a landscape orientation.
108 .BI \-\-papersize= paper_size
109 Set the paper size to
111 which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section
116 .BI \-\-orientation= orientation
117 Print the document with
119 orientation, which must be `portrait' or `landscape'.
123 .BI \-\-linewidth= width
124 Set the default line thickness to
126 thousandths of an em.
127 If this option isn't specified, the line thickness defaults to 0.04\~em.
132 Print the version number.
139 to the search path for font and device description files;
141 is the name of the device, usually
147 Print a short help text.
149 The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable typefaces,
150 each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic styles.
151 Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8 and
152 12 points (for Courier) resp. 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are supported,
153 each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
155 The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access these
159 tab(|) allbox center;
163 Typeface | Regular | Bold | Italic | Bold-Italic
164 Dutch | TR | TB | TI | TBI
165 Swiss | HR | HB | HI | HBI
166 Swiss Narrow | HNR | HNB | HNI | HNBI
167 Courier | CR | CB | CI |
168 Elite | ER | EB | EI |
172 The paper size can be set in the
174 file or with command line options to
176 If the paper size is specified both ways, the command line options take
177 precedence over the contents of the
179 file (this applies to the page orientation too).
182 .BR groff_font (@MAN1EXT@)
183 how to set the paper dimensions in the
187 To set the paper size in the command line, add
196 .BI \-\-papersize= paper-size
203 is in the same format as in the
207 If no paper size is specified in the
209 file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.
211 As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page
217 file or with command line options.
218 It is also case insensitive.
220 To set the orientation in the
222 file, insert a line with the following content:
226 .RB [ portrait | landscape ]
229 Only the first valid orientation command in the
233 To set the page orientation with command line options you can use the
237 option with the same parameters
246 option to force the pages to be printed in landscape.
248 In addition to the usual commands described in
249 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
253 which sets the font name sent to the printer when requesting this font.
254 The syntax of this command is:
266 .RI N\(la base_fontname \(ra\(la font_style \(ra
270 is the font name as it appears in the printers font listings without the
271 first letter, up to (but not including) the font size.
273 can be one of the letters
278 indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respectively.
280 For instance, if the printer's
282 shows font `Nelite12I.ISO_USA', the corresponding entry in the font
289 Note that you may need to modify
291 to add support for new bitmapped fonts, since the available font names and
292 font sizes of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into the
297 is identical to the font name as it appears in the printer's
298 .IR "font listing A" .
300 For instance, to select the `Swiss' font in bold style, which appears in
303 as `Swiss-Bold', the required
308 .B lbpname Swiss-Bold
317 .B @FONTDIR@/devlbp/DESC
318 Device description file.
320 .BI @FONTDIR@/devlbp/ F
321 Font description file for font
324 .B @MACRODIR@/lbp.tmac
328 .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@),
329 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@),
330 .BR groff_out (@MAN5EXT@),
331 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
332 .BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@)