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

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From	Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps?
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As Rod and many others have said, PostScript itself does not have any concept of next line. Your search for a built in thingy to do this will be futile.

That said, there are PostScript *LIBRARIES* that can aid what you are trying to do. They generally call themselves typesetting systems. One that I used heavily in a production project (many thousands of letters sent each week) was Gonzo.ps. http://www.tinaja.com/glib/gonzotut.pdf

Another you may want to look at is QuikScript.
http://seit.unsw.adfa.edu.au/staff/sites/gfreeman/qs.html

Another is the TinyMenu.
http://www.cappella.demon.co.uk/tinyfiles/tinymenu.html

None of these are "oh, now I have an easy linefeed routine I can use." They involve changing how you are doing things on a pretty big scale. But once you buy in, you can typeset pretty rapidly, even automatically generate nicely typeset books from other programs.

Good luck.

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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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