ON THE POWER OF TRAPS AND DIVERSIONS IN A DOCUMENTPREPARATION LANGUAGE

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1981-05-01
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This note illustrates the power of software interrupts (traps) and text diversions in document preparation languages by considering three difficult problems in typesetting: figure placement; setting text in arbitrary shapes; and balancing final columns in multi-column layout. The solution of each of these in the \fBnroff\fR document preparation system is discussed, and an Appendix gives the \fBnroff\fR macros which accomplish the task.
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