format directives

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• Subject: format directives
• From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@reagan.ai.mit.edu>
• Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:43-0400
• Cc: clim@BBN.COM
• In-Reply-To: <19920903171238.5.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

    Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:12 EDT
    From: Scott McKay <SWM@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

	Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:21 EDT
	From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@reagan.ai.mit.edu>


	The Lisp machine has open and close horseshoe as format directives to make
	text style specifications easy.  Is there any thought on this subject for CLIM?

    Not to my knowledge.  I hope that we CLIM implementors all resist the
    temptation to mess around with FORMAT directives.  This is certainly
    good material for a CLIM library contribution, though.

The definition is pretty trivial but cleans up code radically.  See, I've got
to do something useful with all the ~ and ~ that I have (Sorry not lispm
folks!).

	I am about to use ~+ and ~- because they are about the only unused characters
	that make any menonic sense.


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