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Article #2058Re: Awf: Henry's Amazingly Workable Formatter (was Re: Groff)
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 17:55
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 17:55
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In article <10416@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: >: Sounds like Larry needs to go back to his manual and find out what the >: nroff/troff comment convention is. (Hint: it's not ''.) > >Gee, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were trying to be patronizing... :-) Think "irritated", not "patronizing". :-) >Speaking of conventions, I would think that awf, like nroff, would simply >ignore any macros it doesn't recognize. (Though I can see arguments >for taking the opposite tack.) I thought about this at some length, but decided that considering awf's rather serious limitations, it was better for it to complain when it sees something it doesn't understand. It's not safe to assume that formatting errors will always be noticed. -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: comp.text,news.software.b,comp.lang.perl Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Awf: Henry's Amazingly Workable Formatter (was Re: Groff) Message-ID: <1990Nov16.175524.20816@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <28619@shamash.cdc.com> <10354@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Nov14.094039.11153@robobar.co.uk> <90Nov14.184836est.19909@me.utoronto.ca> <1990Nov15.170711.6778@zoo.toronto.edu> <10416@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 17:55:24 GMT