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Re: A Modest Proposal

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From: Christopher D Audley
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 19:06
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In article <tlm.718249912@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Dr. T.L. Marchioro II) writes:
>                  ... perhaps I can offer a better solution to Louis' original
>question --- i.e. a solution with pagenumbering, headers, etc. which runs on 
>any NeXT --- which at least "calms the waters" on one aspect of this 
>question.  Why not have everyone put their documentation in troff??

Why not just use PostScript.  Authors of documentation can use any word
processing/page layout program they want and save it as PostScript.  Its
not like people are typically going to want to be able to modify documentation
they receive.  The original author can retain the document in whatever format
he wishes for latter modification.  

Every NeXTstep program has the ability to create PostScript files and every
NeXT can read them.  Why does there seem to be resistence to using it as the
standard format of documentation?

Chris

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Christopher D. Audley
Elec & Comp Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
Internet: audley@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
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