LPTOPS 1L "07 May 1996" "Version 3.1.3" [section 3 of 12]

DESCRIPTION

• selection of a variety of fonts at arbitrary point sizes with adjustable interline spacing (e.g. for double spacing),
• margin specification,
• page outlining,
• portrait and landscape page orientation,
• automatic page numbering,
• multi-column printing,
• overstruck text (used by many text formatters for underlining and bolding),
• UNIX manual page output from nroff(1),
• ISO8859 Latin-1 (an 8-bit superset of ASCII) and Adobe PostScript character set encodings,
• high-precision character coordinates for accurate typesetter output,
• initialization file for local customization,
• downloadable PostScript fonts,
• mapping of PostScript font names to system-dependent file names,
• full conformance of output PostScript to Adobe Document Structuring Conventions version 3.0 (see Appendix G of the Adobe red book, PostScript Language Reference Manual, second edition, Addison-Wesley (1990), ISBN 0-201-18127-4),
• clipping of long text lines, and
• wrapping of long text lines.

The source code distribution for lptops is in the public domain.

The Adobe TranScript system provides a program of similar intent, known as enscript(1L), but with only a small subset of the capabilities of lptops.