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Subject: What does 'support for laserjet' mean?
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 22:37:41 EDT
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From: Bernie Cosell <cosell@bbn-labs-b.arpa>

One thing I'm curious about for the LaserJet: is there any way to
provide REAL dit/t/roff support for it?  I looked at one briefly
a while back and I decided that I couldn't stand the uncertainly
whether a document might suddenly become un-printable from one
draft to another:

I had nightmares about trying to get out a final draft of a proposal
on the day it had to go into the mail, and an innocent spelling correction
on page 4 moved a line of text forward a page and the document now
breaks on page 7 (which got two footnotes instead of one).

I didn't really have a qualm about the necessity of a funny postprocessor,
only that I thought it couldn't work all of the time.  Do some
post processors do better than others at not losing?

  /Bernie