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Subject: Re: PostScript Level II, contextual forms
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Date: 23 Aug 90 18:33:40 GMT
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rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn ) writes:
>..... YOu don't do the
> layout in PostScript (unless you're (a) a masochist, (b) doing simplistic
> layout, and (c) patient:-)

You might want to do it if you're using a PostScript-based window manager.
(Could be NeWS or DPS, I guess).  Certainly for a really beautiful
document, you would perhaps do the layout in the client application,
but if you are using what the NeWS people call a desk-accessory (i.e.
a small program that lives entirely inside the server), you would
want a cheap-and-cheerful way of doing layout that still didn't make
bloopers in your mother tongue....  I *seem* to remember that the
people at Xerox working on the Multi-lingual word-processor (Scientific
American article?????) devoted some effort to this question.  Not sure
though.

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