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I received the following e-mail message from Dick Dunn. I publish it
without further comment.

From:   IN%"rcd@ico.isc.com"  "Dick Dunn"
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Subj:   Re: PostScript Level II, contextual forms

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From: Dick Dunn <rcd@ico.isc.com>
Subject: Re: PostScript Level II, contextual forms
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Your latest followup is extremely rude and condescending.  I am quite aware
of the many text-formatting systems which exist; we use several here on a
daily basis.  I have worked with many different formatters of many
different types over more than two decades, and I have worked with Post-
Script since shortly after its initial public release.  You need not try
to defend your position by attacking my experience.

The problem is not in my lack of understanding of the text-formatting
problem but in your lack of understanding of the purpose of PostScript.
PostScript is not in any way designed, intended, or capable of handling
language-specific text processing issues.  The issues you describe are
valid concerns, but they are utterly inappropriate for the level of ab-
straction at which PostScript operates.  If you do not wish to use Post-
Script for its intended purposes, you hardly have a valid complaint that it
doesn't meet your goals.

I do not think that further discussion on the net is going to get us any-
where until you have a better understanding of the purpose of PostScript.
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Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870