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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 31 Jan 1994 18:09:43 MST
From: mitch@roll.csd.sgi.com (Tom Mitchell)
Message-Id: <9401312224.AA10106@roll.csd.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: document formatting
To: smith101@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Christopher P. Smith)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 14:24:29 -0800 (PST)
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
In-Reply-To: <199401291928.AA11678@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU> from "Christopher P. Smith" at Jan 29, 94 01:28:45 pm
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Look into the troff/nroff replacement that was published
in Dr. Dobbs a while back (written in C).
The problem with 'simple' is that it is only simple for one
person. If you begin to roll your own look at TeX first.
The scope rules are much richer. Operation names are not
restricted to two characters.
Consider:
\ljp{
Where nesting, blocks and scope \emp{are} better defined.
}
Where nesting, blocks and scope _ARE_ better defined.
>
> Hello,
>
> I am interested in a simple text formatting program, something which is a
> primitive form of nroff. The input is a plain text file with special
> formatting instructions which govern the format of the lines following the
> command. The most primitive set of commands might be something like
>
> .lp (for left justified paragraphs)
> .tt (to indicate that the following text is to be unaltered "typed text")
>
> The program would read the input file and produce an output file with
> paragraphs formatted according to the embedded commands.
>
> Does anyone know of such a program or Icon script which accomplishes this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ________
> Chris...
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