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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Is DTP Dead?
Message-ID: <6398@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 3 Oct 89 15:27:12 GMT
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In article <31661@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, elm@chilli.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller) writes:
> So what's wrong with writing a PostScript interpreter that produces
> line-printer text?  It's always much easier to reduce the complexity
> of a document than increase it.  If you don't have proportional spacing,
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.IP
"It's always much easier to reduce the complexity of a document than
increase it."
.PP
Basically you're saying that Postscript is a higher level language than
ASCII text.
.PP
Indeed. So rather than ship Postscript, ship some markup language (TeX,
nroff, or whatever silly acronyms the standards community is using. SGML?).
This is even a higher level than PS, and a lot better designed for use
by software: whether to generate line-printer text or to include as
references in further documents.
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