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Article #997Re: sorting in troff(nroff)
From: William Roberts
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1986 10:06
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1986 10:06
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In article <7005@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP writes: >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. In a recent paper about his version of Knuth's WEB system, adapted for use with C and troff, Harold Thimbleby observes that "The code which did the formatting for a draft printer was about the same size as the code which prepared the same file to be formatted by troff. Telling troff what to do is as hard as actually doing it." He also mentioned having once written a troff program to produce Pascal7s triangle - at least the formatting of the result was easier than in Pascal! -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu) Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP LONDON, UK Tel: 01-980 4811 ext 3900
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!liam From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: sorting in troff(nroff) Message-ID: <177@cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 06:06:18 EDT Article-I.D.: cs.177 Posted: Mon Aug 4 06:06:18 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Aug-86 02:49:04 EDT References: <320@cord.UUCP> <174@cs.qmc.ac.uk> <7005@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Organization: CS Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Lines: 24 Keywords: troff