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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: Troff or pscat ?
Message-ID: <2218@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 15:43:26 GMT
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In article <2214@astroatc.UUCP> ttl@astroatc.UUCP (Tony Laundrie) writes:
<>> 2508(the)S
<>> 2604(emergenc)S      <<<  How can I prevent this type of word separation
<>> 2839(y)S             <<<  from occuring?  Is it troff or pscat that is
<>> 2891(broadcast)S          causing the problem?
<>
<>If you need to find "words", look for them far upstream, in the input to
<>troff.
<>Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com    uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd     (303)449-2870
<
<
<I guess I ought to elaborate...
<
<All I originally wanted to do was put a logo on our troff document covers.
<I did this by printing the word "ZSELOGO" in troff, then piping the pscat
<output through sed to replace the line containing "(ZSELOGO)" with my 
<PostScript program to draw the logo.  That works fine for now, because the 
<cover page does not change much and I have verified that ZSELOGO does not get
<split up.
<
<Next I considered the general case of including figures in documents anywhere.
<A long time ago, somebody posted a package which did exactly this-- he called
<it a troff/postscript_figure "compiler."  But he suffered the same problem;
<sometimes the strings that he used ("Figure11" or whatever) got split.
<I have tried other types of strings, like ",,,11" with no luck.  Sometimes
<the strings are separated by big distances, not just one line, and the order
<of the parts seems arbitrary.
<
<So my final solution (if I ever decide to write some package) would be to
<change the font type and size in troff to something that will only be used
<for figure names, then use single character letters to mark where the figures
<go.  Using awk or a C program I can easily locate those letters in the
<pscat output.  Got any better ideas?

[Every time I call his extension, he's not around.]

Tony's problem is going to be solved in the future, as a purchase rec. has
been turned in to get ditroff and transcript sources.  Ditroff will allow
Tony to import other pre-made figures alot easier.
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