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From: sas1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Stuart Schmukler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT
Message-ID: <3367@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 88 18:01:13 GMT
References: <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: sas1@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Stuart Schmukler)
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In article <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU> mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes:
>Why not have a text (and even graphics) formatter directly in postscript?!
>...
>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!

These was a set of programs posted awhile ago called 'txttops' that are an 
early attempt at a formatter on the printer.  

As its author jb@csustan.UUCP [my quess at the address] states:
	  It is quite limited but still handy for some things.	

However it is currently written for MS-DOS, when I tried it on an IRIS system V
machine it did not seem to generate postscript that my printer liked.  So, it 
needs work.

SaS