On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:04:29PM +1300, Helmut Walle wrote: > > One thing that has not yet been mentioned is > > that it is actually also quite simple to generate Postscript > > automatically. So why not generate PS directly without the > > LaTeX detour?! > > that, i'd like to see...
Here you are: http://hwalle.orcon.net.nz/soft/address2ps.html > LaTeX vs ps is like c vs assembler i think ;-) ... Well, IMHO this comparison is not quite fair. PS, in contrast to assembler, is still a high-level language, and it is really very complex and compact. I would not have suggested using PS if I had not done quite a bit of manual PS coding... Some colleagues at university used to call me "Mr PostScript" about a decade ago :-) The nice thing about PS is that you have complex functions like "currentpoint", which returns the current output coordinates on the page, or "stringwidth" which gives you the width (in pt units) of a string printed in the currently active font. These functions make it pretty simple to accomplish some nice typesetting without heaps of coding work. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
