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Re: What are people using SVG for?

• To: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Subject: Re: What are people using SVG for?
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 06:57:15 -0700
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David Megginson wrote:

> Because Postscript is a procedural language, there's inevitably going
> to be something you can do with it that you cannot do as efficiently
> (or at all) with a declarative language.  Whatever that something is,
> I doubt it's worth the complexity tradeoff, but all the same, don't be
> surprised when someone pulls it out.

I once wrote filling-and-justification code in PostScript for a tech 
manual authored in something like XML.  It only worked because these 
were little nuggets that by definition had to fit on a page.  And it 
sure made the printer run slow.  But they looked great.
-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

• References:
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  • Re: What are people using SVG for?
    • From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
  • Re: What are people using SVG for?
    • From: David Megginson <david@m...>
  • Re: What are people using SVG for?
    • From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
  • Re: What are people using SVG for?
    • From: David Megginson <david@m...>

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