Hi Eric, > Peter wrote: > > I think what happened is that, over time, near-exclusive use of the > > PostScript driver caused many of us to confuse groff output with > > grops output--if not intellectually, at least at the conceptual > > level. We began to think of groff as a PostScript typesetting > > engine. > > I think this is a very shrewd observation.
Indeed. There's been quite a few answers to "How do I do..?" over the years that embed a bit of PostScript using \X'ps: ...' or similar. That's been the best way to achieve the aim given troff's limits. IIRC Kernighan and Pike's _The Practice of Programming_ was set by processing troff's output to improve the layout page-by-page, the -mpm macros included markers where space could be adjusted, so it's not uncommon to improve troff's output on only some of its output devices. Cheers, Ralph.
