Re: Strange behavior of "root" in "over"'s context

[T. Kurt Bond]

Valeriy E. Ushakov writes:
> Take TPS (Tiny PostScript from Arcadia Project), which is PS, the
> language, sans graphics.  Link it with Lout.  Change @Graphics to pass
> it's left paramter through it.  For PS it will flatten the PS code,
> for PDF it will distill it.  Of course you take care to provide
> different implementations for different backends.  E.g. "setrgbcolor"
> in PS backend takes numbers from stack prints them to the output
> stream and then it prints "setrgbcolor"; in PDF backend it prints
> numbers prints "rg" prints numbers again then prints "RG".  And so on.
> 
> TPS have freeze/thaw capibilities, so you freeze after all the
> @PrependGraphic and just before starting the first page.  You restore
> the state before the page starts and discard it after the page is
> over.
> 
> Anyone interested?

Actually, that does sound very interesting.
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T. Kurt Bond, address@hidden