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In article <1992Sep3.100724.1@max.u.washington.edu> games@max.u.washington.edu  
writes:
>Pistscript is sure cool.  It just hit me though that (not for production 
>purposes) postscript could be abused into doing like regular programs.
mmmm.

>Along the same lines, does anyone have any examp-les of postscript code that
>are aimed at doing things other than laying out a page?

I have done text formatting in Postsrcipt. You feed it a paragraph in the form 
of one long string and it performs linebreaking, indenting &c for you. Very 
handy if you have a section of text to be put on a slide and do not want to
redo the slide in FrameMaker or wha'ever.

I also have done number to text translation in PostScript, that is, 123 gets
translated to One hundred and twenty-three.

Both of these tasks are most arguable done better with a compiled program of
some sort, but in both cases i wanted complete solutions in PostScript.

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