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ASCII back end
From: |
Jeff Kingston |
Subject: |
ASCII back end |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Nov 1993 08:03:33 +1100 |
Well, in view of all the interest, looks like an ASCII back end
has to go on my list of things to do. I don't think it's feasible
though to have the ASCII version having the same page breaks as the
PostScript version, especially if @Bullet becomes <bl> and so on.
Actually making sure that @Bullet comes out as <bl> is quite easy,
it just means changing the definition of @Bullet in DocumentLayout,
which package would clearly need to be duplicated anyway.
I have had fantasies of an ASCII version of Tab which inserted
lovely -+| characters to make the rules. It would be amusing to
change the scaling operators so that (for example) @HScale -
produced -------. But perhaps the correspondent who advised
sticking to a subset and making it work has a better grasp of
reality. An ASCII Eq package, for example, seems hopeless, despite
the venerable example of neqn.
Please don't get all excited and expectant about this. At present
I have absolutely no idea where I am going to get the time from to
produce the (inevitable) next version.
Jeff Kingston
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