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Article #3784Re: A Modest Proposal
From: Anil Trivedi
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 07:37
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 07:37
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royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) writes: > Troff is problematic, because you can't do a program's inline docs using > it. One of the points of all this seamless integration stuff is to > reduce the amount of work you have to do. Who wants to write documentation > twice, once for inline and once for external, when the same documentation > can suffice for both?... If you are considering such formatters as troff, why not consider TeX? I am not sure what it is exactly that you want to do, but it *is* possible to write TeX macros which will process/ignore different portions of your file, depending on style declarations, say \internal and \external :-) ----
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!yukawa.uchicago.edu!trivedi From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal Message-ID: <1992Oct6.073730.9411@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 6 Oct 92 07:37:30 GMT References: <tlm.718249912@scl1.al.iastate.edu> <1992Oct5.075957.631@cubetech.com> <1992Oct5.130622.4831@splunge.uucp> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago Lines: 14