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Article #982Re: sorting in troff(nroff)
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1986 21:30
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1986 21:30
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> ... When you have written your sort program, you might
> care to tackle the aesthetically valid idea of re-writing troff
> in troff......
This isn't quite the same thing, but may be amusing. I actually wrote
(in awk) a "text preprocessor" for troff at one point. It did the same
sort of thing for ordinary text that eqn does for equations: emit it as
detailed instructions for troff, checking to see whether a line was full
or not, doing line breaks, etc. Worked all right. Not useful, but fun.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: sorting in troff(nroff) Message-ID: <7005@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 17:30:06 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.7005 Posted: Wed Jul 30 17:30:06 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Jul-86 17:30:06 EDT References: <320@cord.UUCP>, <174@cs.qmc.ac.uk> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 Keywords: troff, nroff, sorting, macros