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

From	"NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript, adobe.postscript.programming
Subject	Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps?
Date	2011-09-27 13:10 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<j5scc5$pak$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<j5ifr2$m3c$2@dont-email.me> <j5ildf$cgu$1@reader1.panix.com>

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"Rod Dorman" <rodd@panix.com> wrote in message 
news:j5ildf$cgu$1@reader1.panix.com...
> In article <j5ifr2$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.

My brief look at the docus suggests that <newLine> could be programmed as:
/Nline <decr y-coordinate per font size>
  <move abs x-coordinate to line-start> def

but I was hoping for a briefer method from here.
>
> 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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