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From: mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT
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Date: 6 Feb 88 06:15:32 GMT
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I've used Scribe, TeX, and LaTeX text formatting packages, all of
which output to postscript.  But after learning about what a powerful
and elegant programming language postscript is, I started wondering...

Why not have a text (and even graphics) formatter directly in postscript?!

No preprocessing.  You could send your document directly to the
printer.  You wouldn't have to wait for Scribe (no matter how slow
postscript is, it couldn't be slower than Scribe!).  And you would
have total control of your document, and a full programming language
at your disposal!

I'm excited about the idea.  Does anybody know if something like it
has already been done before?  If it hasn't, why not?  Seems like
a unique possibility!

Anybody interested?

Your thoughts, references, and ideas would be greatly appreciated.


			Mike Parker, MIT '89

			mbparker@athena.mit.edu
			617-225-6303