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connolly@convex.com (Dan Connolly) writes:
>I am interested in a text formatting system written in PostScript.

rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
> At this point, most of us are probably asking "why PostScript???"

Yes: why PostScript?

I wrote a text formatting system (LameTeX) that makes all of its
formatting decisions in PostScript. This is because I wanted to
format text around pictures, and the pictures are described in
PostScript.

Although it works, it turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.

It would be much easier to have a PostScript interpreter spew out
the shape of the picture to format text around, and then:

Let a compiled language handle it.

If you're curious what one example of an brain dead implementation would look
like, it is wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/lametex.tar.Z.

-Jon Monsarrat   --   jgm@cs.brown.edu   -- Brown University CS Dept --