Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: How to proofread electronically Message-ID: <967@gloria.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 15:34:34 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.967 Posted: Thu Feb 28 15:34:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 05:47:00 EST References: <22428@lanl.ARPA> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 16 ["In the service of Virman Vundabar we learn perfection!"] If you're using nroff or something like it, you can define macros. Depending on a \n at the beginning, let nroff print 1. the old version, 2. the new version, or 3. the old version (if any) between [brackets] and the new version (if any) in _italics._ No. 3 is how Boswell did it in his _Life of Johnson._ Then again, maybe Xerox PARC will let you use some of their software ... -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...decvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel