On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 21:44, Helmut Walle wrote: > 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. Agreed. PostScript is not a bad little language. More C like and less assembler :)
> 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. The problem with PostScript output is that you don't have style-sheets to help you out. With the markup-language route you can change the appearance of the document without having to change the output generator. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
