Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm?

From	"NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm?
Date	2011-09-20 20:52 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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"Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <j4pppg$4i0$1@dont-email.me>,
> NoHtmlMailsPlease <UsePlainText@dog.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>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*.
>
Play the ball, not the player.
Stay on topic: technology, else join the Oprah Winfree forum.

> 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.
>
Technology is designed to fit human needs, as far as possible.

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      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
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