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- From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (`Grave' Dave Gymer)
- Subject: Re: ISO Code, bold, italic ....
- In-Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU's message of 21 Jan 93 20:24:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <DPG.93Jan25175750@florence.florence.linuxnet>
- Sender: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (`Grave' Dave Gymer)
- Organization: Association of Slack Producing Geeks
- References: <1jgip4INNqq1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1993Jan19.162234.4195@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- <1jm7ijINNre8@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <1993Jan21.142454@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:57:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.142454@IASTATE.EDU> kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
- >Note that the display program doesn't even have to worry about this. The
- >update program would be the one going through replacing "combination"
- >characters. The display programs wouldn't have to be changed at all.
-
- This may be true for TG! for DOS, but it ain't for TUG!. Two TUG!'s with
- different window managers might want to use the same filestore, so the
- interpretation of such things _must_ be left until the text actually reaches
- the reader program.
-
- In any case, since the reade may want to reformat text into a different number
- of columns, one might just as well leave this sort of thing until then.
-
- Anyway, what does it matter which program must be changed? The changes still
- add up to the same amount of work overall.
-
- -- Dave
- --
- `Grave' Dave Gymer, 42 St Mary's Park, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 0EF, England
- <dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (but I'm not always in, and I have no answering machine)>
- MM SS -- DD OO SS The Thing That Should Not Be. | Vote for insanity. You
- MM SS -- DD OO SS But E.vil N.ever D.ies. | know it makes sense.
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