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From: rick@UUNET.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
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Subject: Re:  PostScript Versus ASCII
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Date: 1 Oct 89 15:45:19 GMT
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All of the text processing programs I regularly use (*roff on
unix and ms-word on the Macintosh) have the capability to produce a
pretty reasonable looking text only version from the original input
IN ADDITION to the intended fancy postscript output. I believe a filter
is also available for TeX to produce reasonable ASCII.

What systmes are you using that cant produce ASCII output? Granted
it won't be of the same quality as the postscript, but it certainly
will have the content necessary for the text only people.

Producing both text and postscript would be absolutely no problem for me.
I would not have to maintain a second source file. Perhaps these
"powerful" CAP systems you are using aren't as powerful as you were
lead to believe.


How about examples of the inadequate systems you are complaining about.

--rick