With some help from the LLM that shall be unnamed, I created a full dossier on PostScript. You can build it to the original Markdown, or convert it to HTML, Latex, PDF, etc.

I will guarantee that you will at least learn ‘a bit’ about PostScript with this dossier.

Mind you, PostScript is meant to be compiled to, it’s not a high-level language. As I say in the overview, it’s a ‘visual assembly’!

Some people may not know what PostScript is — well, this is understandable since PostScript’s hayday is long since overdue, we got PDF now. PDF is kinda like a superset of PostScript though.

I am trying to make my own PostScript interpreter. I named it Nock. But first I need to see what I can do with it. There’s enough PS toolchain around. I was working on an EBNF to PostScript translator in Scheme. But I realized I really dunnno not much about it so I spun this up to learn.

You may remember my PostScript manpages from… yesterday was it? Anyways those suck. Don’t use them. Use these. You can even use Pandoc to make manpages from these:

cat _ps-dossier.md | pandoc -fmarkdown -tman | groff -man -Tascii | most
# need to install most, you can use less or more to page

Thanks.