Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:21:03PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
[emacs|vi|pico|some-bigots-fav-text-editor] + groff + the ms macro
package is a pretty good replacement for Wordstar with it's dot
commands. Actually, that's wrong: it's WAY better than Wordstar, and I
actually think it's better than today's MS Word etc. in many ways.
The last line of a right hand page should not end with a hyphen. This
has been a style rule for many years, yet it is amazing that most word
processors do not do this! I just smile when I pick up a book produced
with something like Frame and you immediately find these errors.
Needless to say, troff does this correctly, and has for 20+ years. A
friend commented to me that normal evolution would have gone Word to
Frame to troff, but instead, the computer industry has gone the other
way!
- the late W. Richard Stevens
Thanks for posting that. I worked for Rich at Kitt Peak for several
years and wasn't aware that he was no longer with us. 48 is so young!
Paul Scott
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