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Article #6860IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT
From: mbparker
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 06:15
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 06:15
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I've used Scribe, TeX, and LaTeX text formatting packages, all of which output to postscript. But after learning about what a powerful and elegant programming language postscript is, I started wondering... Why not have a text (and even graphics) formatter directly in postscript?! No preprocessing. You could send your document directly to the printer. You wouldn't have to wait for Scribe (no matter how slow postscript is, it couldn't be slower than Scribe!). And you would have total control of your document, and a full programming language at your disposal! I'm excited about the idea. Does anybody know if something like it has already been done before? If it hasn't, why not? Seems like a unique possibility! Anybody interested? Your thoughts, references, and ideas would be greatly appreciated. Mike Parker, MIT '89 mbparker@athena.mit.edu 617-225-6303
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!mbparker From: mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT Message-ID: <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU> Date: 6 Feb 88 06:15:32 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26