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Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Fri,  5 Jan 2001 09:49:17 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> back in the old days we just took raw troff and did the the job...

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.