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In article <92303.102746JEFF@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, Jeff Brooks
<JEFF@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU> writes:
|> 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

I use MEMO option, send the output to a file with RECFM=VB.
I set up a macro that checks the SYSPDEV.  When SYSPDEV is not
a printer it uses .hm,.tm,.ad=0 and .pl=10000 and redefines .pa to do ..sp
It's worked OK.
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