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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/printing.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/printing.sgml index 93d3dfc..ba113c2 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/printing.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/printing.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!-- This is an SGML document in the linuxdoc DTD describing Printing with FreeBSD. By Sean Kelly, 1995. - $Id: printing.sgml,v 1.2 1995/10/01 22:16:19 jfieber Exp $ + $Id: printing.sgml,v 1.3 1995/12/04 17:58:47 jfieber Exp $ The FreeBSD Documentation Project @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ cd /dev <item>The <em/interrupt-driven/ method is the default with the GENERIC kernel. With this method, the operating system uses an IRQ line to determine when - the printer's ready for data. + the printer is ready for data. <item>The <em/polled/ method directs the operating system to repeatedly ask the printer if it's ready @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ cd /dev <tt/lpt2/ for the third port, and so on. <itemize> <item>If you want interrupt-driven mode, add the <tt/irq/ - specifer: + specifier: <tscreen> <tt>device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq <it/N/ vector lptintr</tt> </tscreen> @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ showpage functionality, you can intermingle plain text with its escape sequences. PostScript cannot directly print plain text, and that's the kind of printer language for - which we must make special accomodations. + which we must make special accommodations. <sect4><heading>Checking a Parallel Printer<label id="printing:checking:parallel"></heading> @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ tip printer printer, and note it in <tt>/etc/printcap</tt> with the <tt/lp/ capability; see <ref id="printing:device" name="Identifying the Printer Device">. Also, if the - printer's on a serial port, set up the communication + printer is on a serial port, set up the communication parameters with the <tt/fs/, <tt/fc/, <tt/xs/, and <tt/xc/ capabilities; see <ref id="printing:commparam" name="Configuring Spooler Communications Parameters">. @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ tip printer add an additional step to the simple setup outlined above: install an automatic plain-text--to--PostScript (or other printer language) conversion program. Section <ref - id="printing:advanced:if-conversion" name="Accomodating + id="printing:advanced:if-conversion" name="Accommodating Plain Text Jobs on PostScript Printers"> tells how to do this. @@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ bamboo|ps|PS|S|panasonic|Panasonic KX-P4455 PostScript v51.4:\ input to the job to print, and its standard output to the printer device specified with the <tt/lp/ capability. The filter is expected to read the job from - standard input, peform any necessary translation for the + standard input, perform any necessary translation for the printer, and write the results to standard output, which will get printed. For more information on the text filter, see section <ref id="printing:advanced:filters" @@ -1069,13 +1069,13 @@ $%&ero;'()*+,-./01234567 id="printing:troubleshooting"></heading> <p> After performing the simple test with <tt/lptest/, you - might've gotten one of the following results instead of + might have gotten one of the following results instead of the correct printout: <descrip> <tag/It worked, after awhile; or, it didn't eject a full sheet./ The printer printed the above, but it sat for awhile - and did nothing. In fact, you might've needed to + and did nothing. In fact, you might have needed to press a PRINT REMAINING or FORM FEED button on the printer to get any results to appear. @@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ Printer received LF Printer prints CR + LF <tag/The printer lost characters./ While printing, the printer didn't print a few - characters in each line. The problem might've + characters in each line. The problem might have gotten worse as the printer ran, losing more and more characters. @@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ lpr -P bamboo -d fish-report.dvi Print literal text data, including control characters. - <tag/<tt/-n// Print ditroff (device indepdendent troff) data. + <tag/<tt/-n// Print ditroff (device independent troff) data. <tag/-p/ @@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ lpr -#3 parser.c parser.h This command is useful while you're testing a new printer or filter installation: disable the queue and submit jobs as root. Other users won't be able to - submit jobs until you complete your testing and reenable + submit jobs until you complete your testing and re-enable the queue with the <tt/enable/ command. <tag/<tt/down <it/printer-name/ <it/message.../// @@ -1856,7 +1856,7 @@ lpr -#3 parser.c parser.h text by default. This presents a problem for PostScript (or other language-based printers) which can't directly print plain text. Section <ref - id="printing:advanced:if-conversion" name="Accomodating + id="printing:advanced:if-conversion" name="Accommodating Plain Text Jobs on PostScript Printers"> tells you what you should do to overcome this problem. I recommend reading this section if you have a PostScript printer. @@ -2099,7 +2099,7 @@ lpr -#3 parser.c parser.h You should also specify the <tt/rw/ capability; that tells LPD to open the printer in read-write mode. - If you have a parralel PostScript printer (and therefore + If you have a parallel PostScript printer (and therefore can't use two-way communication with the printer, which <tt/lprps/ needs), you can use the following shell script as the text filter: @@ -2142,7 +2142,7 @@ fi <p> PostScript is the <it/de facto/ standard for high quality typesetting and printing. PostScript is, however, an <em/expensive/ standard. Thankfully, Alladin - Enterprises has a free PostScript workalike called + Enterprises has a free PostScript work-alike called <it/Ghostscript/ that runs with FreeBSD. Ghostscript can read most PostScript files and can render their pages onto a variety of devices, including many brands of @@ -2343,7 +2343,7 @@ exec /usr/local/bin/dvips -f | /usr/local/libexec/lprps "$@" argument) on standard input, which is the job to print. It then starts the PostScript printer filter <tt/lprps/ (see section <ref id="printing:advanced:if-conversion" - name="Accomodating Plain Text Jobs on PostScript + name="Accommodating Plain Text Jobs on PostScript Printers">) with the arguments LPD passed to this script. <tt/lprps/ will use those arguments to account for the pages printed. @@ -2633,12 +2633,12 @@ exit 0 this is probably <em/not/ what you want. In almost all cases, you need a text filter. - The program <tt/lpf/, whch we introduced earlier as a text + The program <tt/lpf/, which we introduced earlier as a text filter, can also run as an output filter. If you need a quick-and-dirty output filter but don't want to write the byte detection and signal sending code, try <tt/lpf/. You can also wrap <tt/lpf/ in a shell script to handle any - intialization codes the printer might require. + initialization codes the printer might require. <sect2><heading><tt/lpf/: a Text Filter<label id="printing:advanced:lpf"></heading> @@ -3349,7 +3349,7 @@ bamboo|ps|PS|S|panasonic|Panasonic KX-P4455 PostScript v51.4:\ By using the <tt/sc/ capability, we prevent the use of <tt/lpr -#/, but that still doesn't prevent users from running <tt/lpr/ multiple times, or from submitting the - same file mutliple times in one job like this: + same file multiple times in one job like this: <tscreen><verb> lpr forsale.sign forsale.sign forsale.sign forsale.sign forsale.sign </verb></tscreen> @@ -3696,7 +3696,7 @@ total 337.00 154 $ 6.74 Compute charges with <it/price/ dollars per page or per foot instead of the price from the <tt/pc/ - capabilty in <tt>/etc/printcap</tt>, or two cents (the + capability in <tt>/etc/printcap</tt>, or two cents (the default). You can specify <it/price/ as a floating point number. @@ -3737,7 +3737,7 @@ total 337.00 154 $ 6.74 want to charge for printouts in this capability. You can override this value when you run <tt/pac/ with the <tt/-p/ option. The units for the <tt/-p/ option are in dollars, - though, not hundreths of cents. For example, + though, not hundredths of cents. For example, <tscreen><verb> pac -p1.50 </verb></tscreen> @@ -3857,7 +3857,7 @@ pac -p1.50 <sect><heading>Acknowledgments</heading> - <p> I'd like to thank the following people who've assisted in + <p> I'd like to thank the following people who have assisted in the development of this document: <descrip> |
