Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: POW2 public domain formatter Message-ID: <20980061@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 19:15:24 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.20980061 Posted: Sat Jan 12 19:15:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:19:52 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 32 I recently snarfed the POW2 text formatter from SIMTEL20. It works fairly well overall, but it has a few deficiencies. Among these are the lack of various fonts support (you can overstrike a whole line, and underline centered text -- whoopee), the treatment of centering as a special command rather than as a justification mode, the lack of variable-space total justification for printers that support it, the lack of a file inclusion command, the lack of three-part titles, and blank lines not causing a paragraph break. I have fixed one of these by adding font support. The command FT,number switches to the font given by the number, in a table of font handling routine addresses. The font handling routines output a single character in the routine's font, and they are printer specific (non-portable). However, so far I have only added this for left justification, the only mode I use; any font changes will result in bad font-character associations in right or total justify mode, and will have no effect in unformatted text (which I'm not really sure is a very bad thing). I would not want to release such a program, but I am also not heavily motivated to fix it in a way I will never use. So does anyone else want to add this? If you are serious about it, and have a weekend to spare, let me know and I'll send you a copy. Perhaps a number of us could work together on adding the other useful features I mentioned as well. POW has the potential to be a very powerful tool; it seems no one has ever gotten around to making it one. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.