From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:59:46 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents. Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:59:52 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <16bc91a8-7d25-4b39-a88c-3423e5bdecf4@googlegroups.com> <587e236f-123f-4897-b73e-264082a62806@googlegroups.com> <87lv7at2mn293o2qcbrura4avs124prn14@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.179.216 X-Trace: sv3-N18Vp46zSRCbEeTf915L3TOlgodsZ6SrBZS7NJKADLLrZ8+lKF4t/qxELp2/G5SXePnfJdBFjoDsOYo!mbiYS47KngYhgXrNKdzUVos0W5+7zp5wkP/52/h9m+aFOh4vzAsoFdVnTPlIUsxgHrPM5dxIHzPN!sEHvHqQSNCtzFxJCtTGiH5RUylYf X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1868 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23883 Date: 2014-12-05T11:59:52-05:00 List-Id: On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:04:23 -0600, "Nasser M. Abbasi" declaimed the following: > >Actually hardly anyone uses poscript (dvips) now. It is all pdflatex. >postscript documents are pretty much dead. > And PDF is, at heart, a variation of PostScript -- as I recall, the original difference mostly came down to changing the long operator/function names of PostScript to shorter acronyms/abbreviation. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/