🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <898@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
...that they won't buy a buncha ST's...
>until an ST
>wordprocessor comes out which will do proportional spacing.  (The I*M around
>the corner from my office will do P/S, quite nicely too, thanks, *and* thru
>an HP laserprinter into the bargain.
>
>If that blessed little machine can do it, why can't ST's?  (I know, I know,
>no GDOS.  That may be a reason, but it's not an excuse.)
>
   I brougth this up here several months back.  The only response I got was
somebody telling me it was unreasonable, 'cause you'd have to know what all
the character sizes, etc, were.  I guess the concept of a device driver 
(or, in the wonderful world of PC's, a printer configuration file) boggles
some people's minds.
   Anyway, I resigned myself to waiting for GDOS (which I haven't heard
anything about for a month or two).  Maybe I should've written some sort
of simple p/t/nroff-style formatter...
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