oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (01/15/86)
Some notes on PROFF: There is a naming clash in PROFF, which is a easy to fix, and if you ever want to use it under UN*X, [now why would you ever want to do such a thing ??] it MUST be fixed: PROFF uses an internal routine called brk, to introduce line break. This clashes with unix brk. Even if the loader did not throw up, you can never be sure things will be ok. The name is used in about three places throughout the source. There are some compiler warnings. May or may not be serious, depending on the system. The routine that converts numbers to roman numerals should be replaced with something simpler. Performance improvements: This thing could be speeded up by 20%, by diddling the code carefully, and getting rid of ratfor-to-c-conversion remnants. Bolding should be done a la RUNOFF: write a line carriage return overprint line This would mean a major overhaul of the routines that handle line preperation for output. May well worth it. Macros should include some sort of conditional. That would make it much more powerful. A temporary I/O a la m4 divert/undivert would be really handy. After using the formatter for about year-and-a-half, that is what most users found to be a necessity. This would also facilititate, with some further diddling, some sort of footnote mechanism. If you want to hack it seriously, please contact me for further notes/ideas etc. Some commented-out entries in proffsym.new indicates couple of things I had in mind. Oz -- Usenet: [decvax|allegra|linus|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yuyetti] In the beginning, there was Word all right, except it wasn't fixed number of bits.
clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (01/15/86)
Something that Ozan forgot:
Users will probably want to add an "exit(0)" at the end of ltb's
"main" function.
Something like:
#ifdef vms
exit(1)
#else
exit(0)
#endif
Pyramids (f'r instance) don't have an implicit "exit(0)" at the end of a
unreturned/unexitted main function - breaks the make of the lextab.
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