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thailpof(8)							   thailpof(8)

NAME
       thailpof - Generic filter for printing Thai text files

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lbin/thailpof  [-c]	 [-h  host]  [-H]  [-i indent] [-l length] [-n
       login] [-P printer_id] [-S] [-w width] [accounting_file]

OPTIONS
       Prints control characters.  Specifies the host name of the  job	owner.
       This  name  can	contain Thai characters.  Enables half-height printing
       mode.  In printers without a one-pass printing  mode,  Thai  characters
       are printed on 3 levels, or 3 lines.  When half-height printing mode is
       enabled, the 3 levels are printed in  1.5  lines,  which	 improves  the
       appearance  of output.  The cost of this improvement is slower printing
       speed.  Specifies the amount of indentation. The default	 value	is  no
       (no  indentation).   Specifies  the  page  length in lines. The default
       value is 22.  Specifies the login name of the job owner. This name  can
       contain	Thai  characters.  Specifies the printer ID in the format that
       conforms to the	Wototo	Specification.	This  format  is  [bb][mm][nn]
       where:  Is the brand ID, representing the brand of the printer.	Is the
       model ID, representing the model of the printer.	 Is the code ID, spec‐
       ifying the character code used by the printer.  Enables space-compensa‐
       tion mode.  Many of the existing tools for text alignment cannot handle
       nonspacing  characters properly.	 When printing output from such tools,
       enabling space-compensation mode improves  alignment  of	 output	 text.
       Specifies the page width in columns. The default value is 80.

OPERANDS
       Specifies the file to record accounting information.

DESCRIPTION
       The thailpof filter is a generic print filter for Thai text files.  The
       filter  handles	the  device  dependencies  of  printers	 and  performs
       accounting  functions.	At  print  job	completion  times,  accounting
       records	are  written  to  the  file  specified	by  the	 af  field  in
       /etc/printcap.

       The filter can handle plain text files and files that have been prepro‐
       cessed by nroff.	 Either kind of file can contain Thai characters.  The
       thailpof	 filter	 translates  nroff  control sequences for underlining,
       superscripting, and subscripting into the proper control sequences  for
       the printer.

       The  thailpof filter can be the specified filter in both the of and the
       if fields in the /etc/printcap file. For a description of these fields,
       see printcap(4).

       To  print  Thai characters on the flag page using 3-pass mode, you must
       specify /usr/lbin/thailpof in the of field of the  /etc/printcap	 file.
       In  3-pass  mode,  however,  the	 flag page is not printed on one page.
       Therefore, if you do not plan to print  Thai  characters	 on  the  flag
       page,   or   if	 you   are   using   one-pass  mode,  do  not  specify
       /usr/lbin/thailpof in the of field.

NOTES
       The lpr command supports a number of options and	 associated  arguments
       to enable localization features supported by various printers. The fol‐
       lowing can be used with the thailpof filter: To specify	one-and-a-half
       line  printing To enable space-compensation mode.  To specify the path‐
       name of the character code table

       For a complete description of this option and its associated  arguments
       or values, refer to lpr(1).

ERRORS
       The  lf	field  (default	 value is /dev/null) in the /etc/printcap file
       specifies the name of the error log.

SEE ALSO
       Commands: lpr(1), pr(1), lpd(8), pac(8)

       Files: printcap(4)

       Others: i18n_printing(5)

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