Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!edwards From: edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP (Ken Jenkins) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Want Laser Prep walkthrough Keywords: PostSCript, LaserPrep Message-ID: <3302@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 19 Dec 88 19:55:17 GMT References: <456@grand.UUCP> <3265@bgsuvax.UUCP> <788@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 47 In article <788@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>, liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes: > I have plans to write a paper entitled something like > > A Short History of the Apple LaserPrep: > The Primrose Path to the Enternal Bonfire > > This will demonstrate the way in which the Apple LaserPrep code > has moved further and further away from good taste and decency, > resulting in the current state of affairs in which the code > conforms almost to the letter of the document structuring > conventions whilst being utterly against the spirit! > > Incidentally, if anyone out there expects to be able to use > modern Apple PostScript inside things like psfig, then they > might as well forget it now and not waste time trying to > pretend that this stuff can be used in the same way as the > early LaserPreps. > > Can anyone suggest a good place to publish such a paper? > -- > > William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu) > Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP > LONDON, UK Tel: 01-975 5250 Give 'um hell Bill!!!!! :-) You might try: The PostScript Language Journal P.O.Box 5763 Parsippany, NJ 07054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: My name is Ken Jenkins and I am here as a guest of Bruce Edwards to whom this account belongs. Although he may be interested or even amused by my ramblings, he should not be held accountable for them in any way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Politics is ,in the ultimate analysis, religion applied to economics" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Jenkins (as a guest of Bruce Edwards) CSNET: edwards@bgsu.edu ARPANET: edwards@andy.bgsu.edu UUCP: ..!osu-cis!bgsuvax!edwards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------