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Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:
> Note that existing SVG programs can easily be converted to Postscript
> by simply including the correct libraries and replace "SVGopen" by
> "PSopen" and "SVGclose" by "PSclose".

That's interesting as Postscript itself is a rather broken version of
Forth.  Do you mean with SVG calls you can do all the usual Postscript
stuff including text rendering?

I just wrote some Postscript code recently and hit some ridiculous snags
due to dumb stuff in the language.  They were fixable but "traps for the
unwary" as it were.