laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/21/85)
From: Bernie Cosell <cosell@bbn-labs-b.arpa> One thing I'm curious about for the LaserJet: is there any way to provide REAL dit/t/roff support for it? I looked at one briefly a while back and I decided that I couldn't stand the uncertainly whether a document might suddenly become un-printable from one draft to another: I had nightmares about trying to get out a final draft of a proposal on the day it had to go into the mail, and an innocent spelling correction on page 4 moved a line of text forward a page and the document now breaks on page 7 (which got two footnotes instead of one). I didn't really have a qualm about the necessity of a funny postprocessor, only that I thought it couldn't work all of the time. Do some post processors do better than others at not losing? /Bernie