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Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available |
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Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:59:21 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Ted Harding wrote:
> > FWIW, back in the Museum, even though galleys were set from
> > what amounted to "source files", the workstations had a
> > continuously updating "status line"
<snip>
> > I'm wondering if this is the kind of "pre-output access" you're
> > envisaging.
<snip>
> Sort of, I think -- though it looks as thought you're seeing the
> status line prior to, or while, the output is still being formatted.
> The sort of thing I have in mind is targeted right at the line which
> is about to be output, as follows lines. Suppose you have formatted
> output lines (say, as you mentioned, in a narrow-column context)
> like:
>
> This formatted line needs
> smaller spaces. So track kern-
> ing can be used to reduce them.
>
> If you had a "pre-output" macro (just as you can have macros which
> are sprung by bottom-of-page, so you could have macros sprung by
> "about to output line")...
But this is brilliant! At least, if I understand you. It sounds
as if you're talking about an end-of-line trap--something sprung
at the end of every line rather than having to be set. If such a
"trap" existed, macro writers could attack the problem of letter-and
word-spacing themselves. This has many advantages over trying to
implement code in groff to do the same thing, methinks.
Wonder if it's doable?
--
Peter Schaffter