Hi John, At 2024-02-28T09:56:04+1100, John Gardner wrote: [I wrote]: > > Why not refer to the preprocessors by their options? -t -p -e? > > Because those preprocessor options won't necessarily be available in > every Troff implementation; e.g., Heirloom and Neatroff. Even worse, > they could mean different things altogether, like -t and -p did in > otroff.
Ah, of course. I had my parochial blinkers on. ;-) > But apropos(1) of portability, I'm already toying with a pure > PostScript library small enough to embed in Roff documents that > essentially provides a low-level interface to the pdfmark operator. As > in, Adobe Distiller's extension to the PostScript language that serves > as the basis for all PDF-specific features not supported in > traditional PostScript. > > Sorry, I'm rambling. Time for me to shaddap. That seems like a really nifty idea and I'd love to hear more as soon as you have it. I'll wager that other people would, too. Regards, Branden
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