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From: kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Help with eroff and postscript
Message-ID: <595@elan.elan.com>
Date: 26 Jul 89 19:14:16 GMT
References: <1032@esatst.yc.estec.nl>
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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>>I called Elan tech support and was given...
>>
>>      \!!prologcode@pathname...
>>
>>By the way, since this IS undocumented, don't blame me if they drop
>>it next release - but for now it works pretty well.
> 
> They have not dropped it, they changed the syntax to
> 
> 	\X'prologcode@pathname'
> 
> and DOCUMENTED it. This is based on EROFF Release 2.2 for Unix.

In the latest rev of our manual, both forms are included.
Both syntaxes are supported in release 2.2 and will indeed
continue to be supported in the future.

With prologcode, the 1st version with \!! is actually preferable
because \X can spit our some positioning stuff first that you might
not want when you do a prologue.

The READ.ME file included with all Eroff distributions discusses this.

And here I though people never read computer manuals! ;-)

Ken Greer  Elan Computer Group, Inc. 888 Villa St. 3rd Floor Mt View CA 94041
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