[DOC-SIG] SGML for Python Documentation

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:00:17 +0100


> * Made a PostScript file (warning -- Word PS files are "funny" -- I
>wouldn't copy them directly to a PS printer if I were you)

Depends on how you configure your printer, really.  Here's a
trick I'm using to get perfectly portable files:

1. install the QMS 810 driver (a good ole PostScript level 1 printer)
2. rename it as "Plain PostScript" or something, and route it
   to the FILE device.

The files you get will print on virtually everything, especially
if you avoid non-standard fonts.

> I believe that I have thus refuted the arguments that SGML is verbose,
> too hard to parse, too expensive and otherwise not appropriate for the
> task.

I'm convinced! ;-)

Thanks /F

PS. To please users without access to either Word or Frame, is there
some way to go from RTF -> PostScript out there?  Perhaps via groff?


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