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  From: Andrew Pullin <andrew@hotspurbgc.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:07:24 +1030

Re: Licensing and registration feedback

Hi All,
    I agree with the Postscript argument. It is an excellent
Standard, and has been around for ages. There is not much
that cannot be done with Postscript already, and the things
it doesn't do could easily be included in the standard.
Postscript is really just a Markup Language just like HTML,
and so why not do everything Webby or otherwise in it
(probably because HTML was invented). I have been
programming in Postscript for a while now, and it is fairly
straight forward. Ghostview could be enhanced to become a
Postscript web browser with some effort so why not.

<silliness>
Large light bulb above head!

I have seen the light - destroy the web and it's spider like
entities and rebuild it with Ghostview Browsers and PSML
(PostScript Markup Language). What a great Open Source
Project, if only I had the time <sniff> oh well :( .
</silliness>

    Cheers!
        Andrew.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rohan Dangerfield <rcdanger@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Monday, 17 January 2000 12:02
Subject: Re: Licensing and registration feedback


>
>Noy much has been mentioned about postscript as being a
good standard.  I've
>found it too be quite good myself, using it in both unix
and windows.  I
>certainly like it better than the PDF format.
>
>l8r,
>
>Rohan Dangerfield
>---------------------------------------------------------
>rcdanger@smug.adelaide.edu.au
>---------------------------------------------------------
>
> The world is awfully non-linear,
> but we're good at linear maths,
> so what do we do - we linearise everything.
>
> The trick of being an engineer
> is choosing the correct linearisation
> to ensure that the answers that we get
> are approximately correct
>
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>
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