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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Page Makeup using troff
Message-ID: <843@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 15:00:33 GMT
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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I just got my copy of Computing Systems (The Journal of the Usenix
Association) and it contains an article that I've only read the abstract
of (so far) and seems interesting.  If you get Computing Systems, check
out the article starting on p. 103 by Brian Kernighan and Christopher
Van Wyk titled _Page_Makeup_by_Postprocessing_Text_Formatter_Output_.
At a glance, it looks like it addresses many of troff's formatting
problems (widows, orphans, and page justification) and it requires one
hack to troff.

If there is interest, I can summarize the article when finished (please
give me a week-or-so, I have a couple of other things to do).
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-- 
scott barman
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