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

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From	rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman)
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Subject	Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps?
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In article <j5ifr2$m3c$2@dont-email.me>,
NoHtmlMailsPlease <UsePlainText@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?

There isn't any concept of "next line" in PostScript. 

Changing the coordinates can be done in more than one way, which
method is used is up the the program that generates the PostScript
program (or the programmer in the case where you're doing it via a
text editor)

-- 
					-- Rod --
rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com

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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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