From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:42:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112121242.aa15416@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5hpcXbz-op-gJ-fZyt-F=8m6xJ=_YE1ah9W6s+bWJV8qA@mail.gmail.com>
> come to think of it, contemporary layout restrictions did rob us of
> Fermat's own proof of his theorem.
> more seriously, yes, of course you're going to have to select a formatting
> system that can
> cope with what you need to express. equations are one thing. the things
> that never, ever work well
> for me in computer-assisted typesetting are drawing, unless they are very
> simple or i am very lucky.
For drawing, nothing beats rolling your own PostScript. Which leads
me to a complaint about both TeX and troff. Both will happily typeset
whole PostScript documents, but extreme trickery is needed to get them
to produce fragments which can be inserted into hand rolled diagrams.
--
John Stalker
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
tel +353 1 896 1983
fax +353 1 896 2282
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-02 13:02 hugo rivera
2011-12-02 13:15 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 13:23 ` Aharon Robbins
2011-12-02 13:33 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-02 13:40 ` Steve Simon
2011-12-02 16:08 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-02 17:54 ` John Floren
2011-12-02 18:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-12-02 18:13 ` Австин Ким
2011-12-02 18:21 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:16 ` ron minnich
2011-12-02 18:20 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-12-02 18:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-02 18:29 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:45 ` John Floren
2011-12-02 21:02 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 22:24 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:29 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:42 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-03 1:26 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-12-11 22:57 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-12 9:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 9:59 ` simon softnet
2011-12-12 10:28 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 10:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-12-12 12:04 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 12:37 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 12:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 12:42 ` John Stalker [this message]
2011-12-12 14:10 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-12-12 17:46 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 17:48 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 18:42 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 19:22 ` Bakul Shah
2011-12-12 19:45 ` Steve Simon
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