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Unusual Formatting

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From: Andrew Hume
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1985 03:12
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I am collecting examples of unusual and/or difficult text formatting
from the viewpoint of more or less common software such as the troff
family (pic, eqn, tbl etc), Scribe and TEX. So pretty tables per se
do not rate as difficult but two tables side-by-side do. Other
examples might be a polygonal blank space in the middle of a page of text
(for a diagram say) or line filling within a general polygon rather than
the normal rectangular galley. I am also soliciting examples of text
formatting that can't be done (as far as I know). Examples include
typesetting text with a baseline at 30 degrees to the horizontal or
typesetting text on a non-linear baseline.

	Send as much as you want; I can read 150 pages/hour. I will try
to answer responses that ask for answers but may be defeated by
recalcitrant mailers. My mail addresses are research!andrew or if the
ARPANET is your favourite, andrew!btl@csnet-relay.
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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Unusual Formatting
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 23:12:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 23:12:56 1985
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