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Article #3755Re: A Modest Proposal
From: Christopher D Audley
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 19:06
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 -- Christopher D. Audley Elec & Comp Engineering The Johns Hopkins University Internet: audley@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu!audley From: audley@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Christopher D Audley) Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal Message-ID: <1992Oct5.190630.26539@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Keywords: Peace and Quiet : -) Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore References: <tlm.718249912@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:06:30 GMT Lines: 23