Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu From: cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Layout question Message-ID: <36494@sun.uucp> Date: 15 Dec 87 00:11:26 GMT Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: comp Lines: 44 Approved: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com > Recently, I put together some pages which looked roughly like this: > > +--------------------------------+ > | | | | > | | | | > || | | > |--------------------------------| > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > |--------------------------------| > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > +--------------------------------+ > > What software/hardware would you have used to do this project and why? LaTeX's \parbox and/or \framebox commands would have done this. I'd have used it because 1) That's what occurred to me first 2) The resolution is great 3) It's available for micros and mainframes, so I could do it and know many different installations could print it 4) TeX's hyphenation vs. linebreak algorithms are very sophisticated 5) I could type the text, add the appropriate commands, and format; none of this "Grab portion of first column, paste here, next page, grab next portion..." stuff Not to say other packages couldn't have done the job as easily; I just haven't seen them. -- Chris Jarocha-Ernst UUCP: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!cje ARPA: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun --- Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ