Hi Deri,
At 2024-08-31T17:07:28+0100, Deri wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 August 2024 00:07:57 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[fixing two of my own typos and one wordo in the following]
> > It would be cleaner and simpler to provide a mechanism for
> > processing a string directly, discarding escape seq
At 2024-08-31T17:23:49-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> A day after opning on the subject,
> I came across a delicious example,
> "suspended between the nas-
>
> tiness of life and the meanness
> of death", split just like that between
> recto and verso of the first leaf of
> Toni Morrison's classic
A day after opning on the subject,
I came across a delicious example,
"suspended between the nas-
tiness of life and the meanness
of death", split just like that between
recto and verso of the first leaf of
Toni Morrison's classic "Beloved".
Doug
On Saturday, 31 August 2024 00:07:57 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> It would be cleaner and simpler to provide a mechanism for processing a
> string directly, discarding escape sequences (like vertical motions or
> break points [with or without hyphenation). This point is even more
> emphatic be