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> I've been pretty happy with Harmonie. What advantages would there be in
> accessing PCL directly? That must sound like a dumb question, but....

Take a look at the way the AppleWorks driver from SuperPatch prints
quickly and gives beautiful (laserjet quality) printouts.

As I understand things, this is somewhat what James is attempting to do
with his program. However, it appears that he is not going to use the
H-P proportional fonts that John Link did with his patch to AppleWorks.

I, for one, would not pay for such a program. I can get the same
results using ProTerm 3.0.

The program that is needed, in my estimation, is a program that can
take an ASCII file and print it in proportional fonts.

One thing that has to be decided is how one defines a paragraph:

1.  A string of ASCII characters that is ended with an end-of-line
    character i.e., ^M for Apple
    This is "simple," however, it does have the down side that a string
    can have infinite length.

2.  A set of ASCII characters that are ended with: ^M^M, ^Mspace,
    ^Mperiod, etc.

The second definition fuels my locomotive, however, not everyone's.

Kind Regards,
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