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Greg A. Woods spends a lot of time convincing us that troff can do
anything (in particular, it can do any page layout task one would desire).

In response, I quote from "Page Makeup by Postprocessing Text
Formatter Output", Brian W. Kernighan and Christopher J. Van Wyck,
Computing Systesms 2,2 (Spring 1989).

	... elaborate macro packages have been written for troff ... a
	package by M.E. Lesk does vertical justification ... [It] is
	intricate and slow, and does not address the more complicated
	task of mixing single- and double-column text with figures of
	different widths, which is characteristic of technical
	conference proceedings and some scientific journals.

	The difficulty with macro packages for page makeup ... is that
	it is simply too hard to write page-makeup programs of the
	necessary complexity in the clumsy and incomplete macro
	languages provided by these formatters.



	
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=Spencer (spencer@eecs.umich.edu)