From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Mar 7 06:37:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12409 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 06:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12382 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 06:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous228.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.228]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04062; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:30:58 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id PAA00515; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:19:37 +0100 (MET) To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: stuart henderson Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) References: <199803030441.VAA11558@const.> <34FBE0CB.C1697F2D@internationalschool.co.uk> <19980304102052.13296@freebie.lemis.com> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 07 Mar 1998 15:19:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:20:52 +1030 Message-ID: Lines: 16 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey writes: > 2. The ASCII (latin1) version of the handbook doesn't contain any > high-bit-set characters. Wrong. handbook.latin1 contain 8 bit characters, e.g., `Søren'. > The only unusual character it contains > is a ^H (backspace), which even on DOS impact printers will create > a bolder impression. In UNIX, you can (and I do) remove it with > sed 's:.^H::g'. better: $ col -b < handbook.latin1 > /tmp/handbook.latin1.stripped -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message