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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What's postscript's basic algorithm? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-08-25 11:37 +0200
  Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-08-25 11:25 +0100
  Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-26 19:51 -0700
    Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-14 09:49 +0200
      Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2011-09-14 18:21 +0000
      Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-09-20 05:12 -0500
        Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-09-20 20:52 +0200
          Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-09-22 15:40 +0100
            Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2011-09-22 12:15 -0400
          Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-09-25 01:03 -0500
  Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2011-11-08 18:18 -0700

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