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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Broff and a proposed net project
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 04:12:56 EDT
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Since you have indicated that you agree that there are problems
with *roff-style formatters, why are you designing another one?
There is currently an ISO Draft-Proposed Standard for a Text
Processing Programming Language and for a Text Processing
Markup Language.  Perhaps you should look into this, rather
than redoing a twenty-year-old formatter.  The TPPL is a highly
structured language, and the markup language takes all the good
ideas from Scribe and then does it right.
-- 
			Barry Margolin
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