I'm impressed that you chose to program in PostScript.  Why not a more
user-friendly language?  Just wondering....

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> From:         john hoy
> Sent:         Friday, September 10, 1999 4:34 PM
> To:   Sundial Mail List
> Subject:      paper equatorial dial with pencil gnomon
> 
> Fellow dialists,
> 
> I have rewritten my equatorial dial in native postscript and I think it is
> much improved. It is also available in PDF but PostScript users can
> change the motto and include a longitude correction or even change the
> design substantially by changing a few parameters.
> 
> If anyone would like to point out mistakes or other flaws please be my
> guest(s.) If you're using ghostscript and PostScript files are not
> centered on the page when it comes out of your printer you can adjust the
> printer properties to compensate. 
> 
> I have some sympathy for the fellow who didn't want attachments. I have a
> cousin who sends me email with attachments and when I asked her to stop
> she told me that she didn't know how to stop and didn't even know that shw
> was doing it so I just learned to live with it. Likewise I wish people
> wouldn't send email as HTML but I figure that they either want to do it
> that way or don't know any better. It's easy to get tunnel vision. I
> figure that everybody's not going to wise up and think like me so I let
> them do what they want (even if it means putting up with those @$%*!
> frames!)
> 
> The dial is at http://www.cyberspace.org/~jh/dial/ 
> 
> Happy dialling!
> 
> John
> 

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