On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: > > FWIW, back in the Museum, even though galleys were set from > > what amounted to "source files", the workstations had a > > continuously updating "status line" <snip> > > I'm wondering if this is the kind of "pre-output access" you're > > envisaging. <snip> > Sort of, I think -- though it looks as thought you're seeing the > status line prior to, or while, the output is still being formatted. > The sort of thing I have in mind is targeted right at the line which > is about to be output, as follows lines. Suppose you have formatted > output lines (say, as you mentioned, in a narrow-column context) > like: > > This formatted line needs > smaller spaces. So track kern- > ing can be used to reduce them. > > If you had a "pre-output" macro (just as you can have macros which > are sprung by bottom-of-page, so you could have macros sprung by > "about to output line")...
But this is brilliant! At least, if I understand you. It sounds as if you're talking about an end-of-line trap--something sprung at the end of every line rather than having to be set. If such a "trap" existed, macro writers could attack the problem of letter-and word-spacing themselves. This has many advantages over trying to implement code in groff to do the same thing, methinks. Wonder if it's doable? -- Peter Schaffter _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
