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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PROFF... has anybody improved it yet?? (response from oz)
Message-ID: <475@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 10:21:14 EST
Article-I.D.: yetti.475
Posted: Wed Apr  8 10:21:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 05:25:26 EST
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Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York University Computer Science
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Keywords: proff

In article <657@sask.UUCP> long@sask.UUCP (Warren Long) writes:
>
>I now feel that PROFF is superior to all the word processors out
>for the ATARI.  The main feature is the automatic generation of the
>Table of Contents.
>
	Thank you. I am glad to hear this, although when I wrote it,
	I did not think that it would be useful.

>However,  it is just pitiful when trying to do BOLDFACE or
>UNDERLINE.  I know tht backspace is a handyway to do things so that
>they work on anything, but it is painfully slow, especially when I
>know that my printer is being slowed to a tenth of its speed.

	You are absolutely right. It is a bad way of doing things,
	but at the time, I did not know any better. Call it nroff
	syndrome. :-)
>
>Since I have the source to PROFF, I intend on getting into it, and
>enabling it to do the things it does do CORRECTLY, and to maybe
>add somemore features, like ITALICS, etc.  I am going to set this up
>to work with an EPSON FX-80 compatible printer, (the industry
>standard for an ST??).
>
>Has anyone already done this??  Am I wasting my time??
>
	To my knowledge, nobody has done the "right" things to it.
	Proff has all the problems of a "first" system. It badly
	needs a re-write, by using ditroff-style structures internally.
	[ditroff internals is well documented in a btl memo]
	All changes/additions without a re-write would be (in my
	opinion) time-wasting hacks. Sigh... I wish I had the time.

>Warren

	oz
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