From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@planete.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 01:54:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d01c07727$76985ae0$8692fea9@coma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A54D72F.EB3E697B@netscape.com>
From: Allan J. Heim <ajh@netscape.com>
>
> Having been a troff typesetter in my youth, I'd ask you to consider
> TeX/LaTeX as an alternative. It seems more complex to set up, but it's
> very sophisticated typesetting software, and the community
> (http://www.tug.org/) is very active. There's even a graphical front-end
> for LaTex, called "LyX".
knuth had lost his mind [tex]. lamport was a screwhead [latex].
gimme raw troff anyday...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-05 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-27 19:26 James A. Robinson
2001-01-02 17:44 ` John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05 9:48 ` Allan J. Heim
2001-01-05 14:54 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-01-05 19:29 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-06 17:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-06 18:31 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2001-01-07 1:20 ` [9fans] " Steve Kilbane
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-08 15:17 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 10:29 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 15:06 ` Mark C. Otto
2001-01-07 15:17 rob pike
2001-01-08 9:54 ` Luis Fernandes
2001-01-08 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-08 20:07 ` Dan Cross
2001-01-12 9:32 ` saroj
2001-01-12 17:17 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-12 17:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:25 ` saroj
2001-01-12 18:20 ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-12 18:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:31 ` saroj
2001-01-08 17:19 ` James A. Robinson
2001-01-08 19:21 ` Howard Trickey
2001-01-09 9:38 ` Andy Newman
2001-01-09 9:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-10 0:16 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-11 9:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-02 10:54 steve.simon
2001-01-03 8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05 9:49 ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05 14:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-19 21:44 Boyd Roberts
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