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

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From: NoHtmlMailsPlease
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:10

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"Rod Dorman" <rodd@panix.com> wrote in message 
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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.

My brief look at the docus suggests that <newLine> could be programmed as:
/Nline <decr y-coordinate per font size>
  <move abs x-coordinate to line-start> def

but I was hoping for a briefer method from here.
>
> 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)
>
> -- 
> -- Rod --
> rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com

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