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From: uconray@cisunx.UUCP (Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT
Message-ID: <6790@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 88 22:59:13 GMT
References: <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: uconray@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Fox)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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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!
>


I don't know exactly what you are aiming for, but there was once a 
simple text formatter which takes a regular text file (with troff-
look-alike .commands) and concat to it a pre-written postscript
definitions....it just appends the text file at the end and the 
whole thing can be sent to the printer directly. It was called
txtopt or something like that.    If the author is reading this,
he probably will respond to it now.

Ray
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