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Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm?

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In article <j4pppg$4i0$1@dont-email.me>,
NoHtmlMailsPlease <UsePlainText@dog.edu> wrote:
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>So far I haven't found the <relative move Y down to next line based
>on currentFontSize>

There's a reason you haven't found it.  It *doesn't* exist.

It is the responsibility of whatever generates the postscript to
keep track of the font size and generate the rmove based on what
_it_ thinks is the right amount for that font size.  (This is usually
*not* the actual font height.)

>This stuff looks like a canOworms which could consume a lot of time
>if allowed to.
>
>== Chris Glur

Oh.  *you*.

IF you can't be bothered to learn the theory first, you will waste a
lot of time banging your head against the wall, trying to make it fit
your erroneous expectations.

Postscript simply *doesn't* work the way _you_ "think it ought to".

You have to adapt to the way it works, not the other way around.

When you can't find something that matches your expectations, that is
a positive indicator that *your*expectations* are wrong, and need to be
revised.

Dollars to donuts, based on a couple of _decades_ of watching your blind
insistence that the world change to work _your_ way, you _won't_ take this
advice.

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