Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps?

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From: Rod Dorman
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:07

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In article <j5ifr2$m3c$2@dont-email.me>,
NoHtmlMailsPlease <UsePlainText@dog.edu> wrote:
>My final aim is to have adobe's pdf to speech not
>make unnatural breaks, because of page-breaks which
>don't correspond to paragraph-breaks;
>which is what I get when I use openOffice for 
>text to pdf.
>
>The "hello world" ps-tut doesn't deal with stepping the
>y-coordinates down to the next line.
>
>How should I do this, without getting married to ANOTHER
>programming language?

There isn't any concept of "next line" in PostScript. 

Changing the coordinates can be done in more than one way, which
method is used is up the the program that generates the PostScript
program (or the programmer in the case where you're doing it via a
text editor)

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					-- Rod --
rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com

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Subject: Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps?
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