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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@planete.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
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Date: Sat,  6 Jan 2001 01:52:25 +1100
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> If by "job" you mean formatting a fairly simple one-off document,
> that's fine, but if you're doing a lot of similar work tools
> such as chem, dag, dformat, grap, pic, eqn, tbl vastly improve
> one's productivity.

i've used 'em.  same way -- just start and learn from scratch.