From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: psutils et al
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:53:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A8C12AD.348B81C5@arl.army.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14TKx9-0002eE-00@minster.cs.york.ac.uk>
"John A. Murdie" wrote:
> ... On Unix and Plan 9, I'd say that was probably
> at the ditroff output level. ...
Unfortunately, troff "knows" physical characteristics of the
device when it preforms the formatting. Certainly, ditroff
output can be manipulated by filters and device interpreters
(e.g. there is often a "landscape" switch), but the language
is a little too close to the hardware to expect good results.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-15 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-15 9:43 John A. Murdie
2001-02-15 17:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-02-16 9:52 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-15 9:44 John A. Murdie
2001-02-15 13:28 John A. Murdie
2001-02-15 17:44 nemo
2001-02-15 17:47 nemo
2001-02-16 10:31 John A. Murdie
2001-02-16 11:36 John A. Murdie
2001-02-19 9:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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