Broff and a proposed net project

barmar at mit-eddie.UUCP barmar at mit-eddie.UUCP
Wed Jul 27 18:12:56 AEST 1983


Since you have indicated that you agree that there are problems
with *roff-style formatters, why are you designing another one?
There is currently an ISO Draft-Proposed Standard for a Text
Processing Programming Language and for a Text Processing
Markup Language.  Perhaps you should look into this, rather
than redoing a twenty-year-old formatter.  The TPPL is a highly
structured language, and the markup language takes all the good
ideas from Scribe and then does it right.
-- 
			Barry Margolin
			ARPA: barmar at MIT-Multics
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