| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 | 
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** | 
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER | 
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 | 
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 897 | 
| Total number of notes: | 4397 | 
 Just curious: awaiting the appearance of the Document Internals
 book (I asked one to Santa):
 - Does Document use a type of TeX  PLAIN.FMT / PLAIN.TEX ?
 - If it does, could I safely <include_tex_file> the LaTeX LPLAIN.TEX?
 Reason to ask is that I'm looking for a way to include the
 \begin{picture}  ..... \end{picture} environment which would allow
 me to include a number of existing LaTeX pictures...
 - I think Document needs something simple to draw lines, vertically,
   horizontally and diagonally to allow something more pleasing than
   the dumm <LINE_ART> which to me looks like a Runoff page in Document.
   Surely we can do better than that.
Theo
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 669.1 | not easily | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Thu Jul 16 1987 10:53 | 9 | |
|     
    We use SDML.FMT, our own macro package. If you try to include any
    TeX definitions from LPLAIN, you may run out of room for \newdimens
    (in BL8; this is fixed in V1.0). You may also run into problems
    with control sequences for characters. I can't predict what other
    things might happen.
    
    patti
    
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| 669.2 | I feared as much | IJSAPL::KLERK | Theo de Klerk | Thu Jul 16 1987 12:17 | 16 | 
| I was afraid that might be the case... But like the WASP's Commander Shore always says: "Anything can happen in the next half hour" Stingray...Stingray...it dives under the sea into the strangest worlds... (c) APF Films, Barry Gray | |||||