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>In article <1992Oct15.001223@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>>At this point, most of us are probably asking "why PostScript???"  That is,

	It's _highly_ device independent, is not tied to any one computer, 
does linerar graphical transformations on the fly, handles fonts beautifully, 
is a _true_ computer language, is fun to program in, is stack oriented,
is reentrant, is object oriented, and is loosely typed. 

	That answer your question?   :-)

In article <1bkhvdINNdku@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>No, we're not.  We realize that were such a program available, one could simply
>download the program and the text to the PostScript printer and let IT do the
>formatting.  If we use more than one operating system in our work, it wouldn't
>be necessary to port the code for the formatter to each operating system.

	My sentiments exactly. 

	There is such a program avaliable and it works quite well,
although there is a catch(see below). It's called "Gonzo Justification
Power Tool" by a man that is quickly becoming the closest thing I have
to a hero: Dan Lancaster. 

	Basically, you send it to the printer as a persistant
download, then when you want to have it format some text you prolog the
text with: 

		gonzo begin
		dumpascii starttemplate

	Of course the templates are totally redifinable(using our
favorite language!) and in fact it works quite well if you want to do
anything remotely interesting with the text. 

	The catch? It's on GEnie, and the way I understand it, it cannot
be placed on a public archive or redistributed. However, the $2.50 spent
downloading it is _well_ worth the money, and Dan certainly deserves
whatever his cut is of it. (I think this is why none of the great stuff
on the PSRT is on any of the archives)

	Speaking of GEnie: If you have any interest at all in using
PostScript as more than just a way of "dirtying up an otherwise clean
sheet of paper", the PostScript Language Roundtable is definitely worth 
looking into. 

-kdr

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