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Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps?

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On Sep 23, 8:11 am, "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainT...@dog.edu> wrote:
> My final aim is to have adobe's pdf to speech not
> make unnatural breaks, because of page-breaks which
> don't correspond to paragraph-breaks;
> which is what I get when I use openOffice for
> text to pdf.
>
> The "hello world" ps-tut doesn't deal with stepping the
> y-coordinates down to the next line.
>
> How should I do this, without getting married to ANOTHER
> programming language?
>
> ==TIA

Well, you need to download (or buy) the Adobe books. The Blue
Book is a better tutorial than anything else (and free online),
and the cookbook section has good ideas to get you started.
For the kind of stuff you're describing you certainly will
need to "get married" to postscript, as you say.

The book for what you're trying to do is the Green Book. It
explains how to design the postscript programs that produce
documents. But you won't understand it without having done
the prep work.

While the Red Book (Postscript Language Reference Manual or
PLRM) is available online, the third edition is quite
overwhelming. I strongly recommend to anyone learning
postscript that they buy a first edition manual. It's less
than 1 inch thick! It has the stuff you need. The operator
summary tells you what page to find the details on.
It really is a nice, concise manual.

If any of this fires your imagination, I recommend
Postscript By Example. I'm too sleepy to praise this book
adequately.

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How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-23 15:11 +0200
  Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2011-09-23 19:07 +0000
    Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-27 13:10 +0200
      Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2011-09-27 12:35 -0400
      Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2011-09-27 18:44 +0000
        Re (2): How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-09-29 09:58 +0000
          Re: Re (2): How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-09-29 07:35 -0500
  Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2011-09-24 00:58 -0700
    Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-27 17:29 +0200
  Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-24 01:03 -0700
    Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-27 13:28 +0200
  Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps? RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@SpamWeary.invalid> - 2012-02-19 13:46 +0000

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