[lug] postscript language help

[Wayde Allen]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> Thus spoke Wayde Allen
> > > I need to write a simple postscript program.  All I need is to do the
> > > following:
> > 
> > I'd probably use LaTeX for this.  
> 
> I thought about this, but I didn't have a LaTex text and did have a
> Postscript one.  As it turned out, the coding was pretty straightforward.
> It took a little while (I was up till 2am working on it), but I've got a
> template that can be tweaked for any page dimensions now.  It centers
> the text in different rows of each block.  And even uses the official "green"
> color of the event for the CLIQ title line.  :-)

OK, one can't argue with success.  I would suggest that you get a book on
LaTeX though.  You basically ended up coding a very small piece of what
LaTeX is designed to do. 

- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)