Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:5957 alt.flame:23009 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!virtue!ccc_ldo From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,alt.flame Subject: Re: PostScript Level II, contextual forms Message-ID: <1390.26de279d@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 30 Aug 90 21:02:21 GMT References: <9607@goofy.Apple.COM> <1289.26d27708@waikato.ac.nz> <1330.26d576c4@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Aug24.182905.24152@ico.isc.com> <1376.26dc15f6@waikato.ac.nz> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 42 I received the following e-mail message from Dick Dunn. I publish it without further comment. From: IN%"rcd@ico.isc.com" "Dick Dunn" To: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz CC: Subj: Re: PostScript Level II, contextual forms Received: from ico.isc.com by waikato.ac.nz; Thu, 30 Aug 90 23:40 +1200 Received: from keystone.ico.isc.com by ico.isc.com (5.61/1.35) id AA15027; Wed, 29 Aug 90 12:46:28 -0600 Received: by keystone.ico.isc.com (5.61/ISC-CTO/06-27-90/ico.isc.com-leaf) id AA12296; Wed, 29 Aug 90 12:43:24 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 90 12:43:24 -0600 From: Dick Dunn Subject: Re: PostScript Level II, contextual forms To: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz Message-Id: <9008291843.AA12296@keystone.ico.isc.com> In-Reply-To: your article <1376.26dc15f6@waikato.ac.nz> News-Path: ico!ncar!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!virtue!ccc_ldo Your latest followup is extremely rude and condescending. I am quite aware of the many text-formatting systems which exist; we use several here on a daily basis. I have worked with many different formatters of many different types over more than two decades, and I have worked with Post- Script since shortly after its initial public release. You need not try to defend your position by attacking my experience. The problem is not in my lack of understanding of the text-formatting problem but in your lack of understanding of the purpose of PostScript. PostScript is not in any way designed, intended, or capable of handling language-specific text processing issues. The issues you describe are valid concerns, but they are utterly inappropriate for the level of ab- straction at which PostScript operates. If you do not wish to use Post- Script for its intended purposes, you hardly have a valid complaint that it doesn't meet your goals. I do not think that further discussion on the net is going to get us any- where until you have a better understanding of the purpose of PostScript. --- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870