From: the.beez.speaks@gmail.com   
      
   On 30-01-2025 23:51, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   > Exactly the reason why I have never looked into SVG.  I already knew   
   > PostScript years before SVG was released.   
   Can't say that differs from my experience. I used Spellbinder as a   
   wordprocessor in 1984. But I didn't like the (separate) printing program   
   that came with it. So I wrote my own in Pascal. In 1987 I ported it to C   
   and named it "Just Another Printing Program". It was so powerful you   
   could print EBCDIC straight away - by *DEFINING* it. The same for   
   Postscript. This is the definition:   
      
   -l=66   
   -m=4   
   -eh=tcpm   
   -el=tcpm   
   -ef=tcpm   
   -u=pscript.chr   
   -a=pscript.prc   
   -s="%!PS-Adobe-3.0\n%%Creator: JAPP V\v\n%%Title: \f\n%%CreationDate:   
   \d\n%%Orientation: Portrait\n%%EndComments\n/Courier findfont 12   
   scalefont setfont\n"   
   -r=\n%%Trailer\n   
   -sp="%%Page: \p \p\n"   
   -rp=showpage\n   
   -sl="0 \(67 12 * 2 @ 12 * -) moveto ("   
   -rl=") show"   
   -ff=\0   
   -bm=2   
   -keepbuffer   
   -adjustonread   
      
   The fun part is: this is essentially the predecessor of 4tH:   
   -sl="0 \(67 12 * 2 @ 12 * -) moveto ("   
      
   It was a Forth inspired RPN engine, but it didn't have procedures or   
   conditionals or loops. When it did, it became 4tH..   
      
   Yeah, I know it is a language - it shares some roots with Forth,   
   actually. But like I said, I wasn't out to create some elaborate   
   library, I just wanted vector graphics - quickly and easily. And I think   
   this lib fulfills those requirements very well.   
      
   Hans Bezemer   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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