> > I believe TeX uses a similar concept (i.e., storing > > ready-formatted text), only they call it "boxes", not > > "diversions", and TeX has an optimizer to decide where to > > pagebreak, not just a simple vertical-position trap. > > Well, in TeX I can always `\unhbox' or `\unvbox' a box > to get back the original contents, unmodified.
Umm, depends on what you mean by "original contents". Unvboxing a formatted paragraph will put the list of the individual lines of the paragraph into the current list, but it won't undo, for example, any hyphenation that has occurred as a result of formatting the original text. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
