Chile Verde con Puerco (Pork with Green Chiles)

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However, the PostScript code provided here may not be incorporated into any software product without a license from the author. Today, we’ll deal with a problem that isn’t handled well by most desktop publishing software: formatting recipes. We want our recipes to be attractive, yet easy to use for both shopping and preparation. We also must have a format that’s easy to update, so that revising the instructions or adding an ingredient does not require tedious manual reformatting. Figure 1 shows a recipe formatted to meet all of these requirements. It is formatted as a two column table using Microsoft Word 5.1a for the Mac. (The paragraphs in the first column of the table are formatted with two tab stops to create the appearance of three columns.) The braces that group the ingredients are created using PostScript code; these braces automatically resize themselves as required. The technique we’ll describe only works with PostScript output devices. Since the braces are created using PostScript code, they won’t show up on the screen, although they’ll print just fine. Finally, this technique only works with Microsoft Word, since this is the only program that supports tables and has fully integrated support for PostScript code. (Honorable mention goes to FrameMaker for its support of tables. Unfortunately, FrameMaker lacks Microsoft Word’s integrated PostScript support.)

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Recipes format , Postscript

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• Author : unknown
• Generator : Acrobat Distiller 1.0 for Macintosh
• Created : Sat, Dec 31, 1994
• Last Modified : unknown
• Total Pages : 2

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