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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Quality of computer typesetting?
Summary: Just a few comments
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.170313.23927@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 17:03:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.215651.13961@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991Mar15.134229.23183@noao.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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The bright side of Richard Stevens' comments is that he was
able to get the job done. troff is undoubtedly complex; this
leads to the "difficult to use" problem. A simpler formatter
gets very annoying when you can't, say, define your own
footnote style, or use standard tools like spell because
it uses some strange binary format.

DWB 3.2 troff does have the TeX hyphenation as an option.
As Stevens mentioned, the pm code for widows, orphans,
automatic figure placement, column balancing is on the
(pricey) DWB 3.1 source tape. I'd love for someone like
Sun to make it available in binary at a reasonable price.
(I'm not in Sales.) AT&T will sell 3.1 binaries around
later APril for their own equipment: 6386, 3B2, System 7000.

What might help us both is if you put pressure on your
vendor to give you DWB binaries. They can afford a source
license better than you can.