Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Table formatters and sample tables (summary) Message-ID: <1790@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 15:35:30 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1790 Posted: Wed Sep 26 15:35:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 02:21:25 EDT Sender: root@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 42 From: Beach.pa@XEROX.ARPA In my previous message, I requested information about table formatters, interactive front ends for table formatters, a Scribe table preprocessor, and tables with math or equations included. Unfortunately the answers were not encouraging. Sonnenschein.es@Xerox.ARPA pointed out that the Xerox Star 8010 workstation has interactive table formatting. [Shame on me for not mentioning it before! RJB] Mark D Sennpointed out that 'naked' TeX works fine for tables using the templates designed by Donald Knuth in "The TeXbook". Creon Levit suggested pic, the picture language preprocessor for device independent troff under Unix. eqn, pic, and tbl can be used in succession to embed equations inside drawings inside tables. [Does anyone know the limitations workable orderings of the preprocessors? RJB] Paul Rubin pointed me to the matrix formatting macros in AmSTeX, described in "The Joy of TeX" by Mike Spivak. Brian Reid pointed me to a guy named Victor at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC. Brian's comment: "It's all written in Cobol, but wow, can it format tables!" Richard Furuta provided me with a reference to "TABLE: Object Oriented Editing of Complex Structures" by Ted Biggerstaff et al., published in the IEEE Conference on Software Productivity. TABLE is an interactive front end to tbl they built to demonstrate the view that "the software development is a process of editing complex structures". Thanks to all the respondents. There surely must be other gems out there. Cheers Rick Beach Xerox PARC