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From: "Mark C. Otto" <Mark_Otto@FWS.Gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Mon,  8 Jan 2001 10:06:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A59D768.BBB388F5@FWS.Gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14FZYe-000717-00@minster.cs.york.ac.uk>

I grew up with TeX but would agree with Rob on its pluses and minuses over
troff.  A package that seems to build on both troff and TeX is lout,
http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/lout.html.  The language looks a lot like
troff, lout produces postscript output, and is written in ANSI C.  I know it
would have to have significant advantages over troff, but it might fit well with
plan9.

Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-08 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-08 10:29 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 15:06 ` Mark C. Otto [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-08 15:17 John A. Murdie
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
2000-12-27 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
2001-01-05 19:29     ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-06 17:53       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-07  1:20         ` Steve Kilbane
2000-08-19 21:44 Boyd Roberts

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