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Waterloo SCRIPT output for on-line viewing

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From: Jeff Brooks
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 15:27
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We would like to use Waterloo SCRIPT to format documents for
on-line viewing using Gopher or some other campus-wide information
system.  We have the following problems:

 1. Underscored/overstruck text is displayed using several output
    lines per line of text.  This is fine for printer output, but
    terribly confusing to on-line viewing.  We _could_ write dummy
    tag code for every tag that produces emphasized text, but we
    would still miss, e.g., places where a function was used to
    select boldface text.

 2. SCRIPT seems to append quite a number of blanks lines at the
    end of each document.

We are running Waterloo SCRIPT 90.1.  Ideally, we would like MEMO
output to look like a flat text file for viewing, NOT a printer
file from which the carriage control has been removed and no
further changes have been made.  Any suggestions?

   Jeffrey A. Brooks                  (304) 293-5192
   IBM Systems Group                  jeff@wvnvm.wvnet.edu
   West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing
   Morgantown, West Virginia  26505
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Date: Thursday, 29 Oct 1992 10:27:46 EST
From: Jeff Brooks <JEFF@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Message-ID: <92303.102746JEFF@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
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Subject: Waterloo SCRIPT output for on-line viewing
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