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From: "Mark C. Otto" <Mark_Otto@FWS.Gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
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Date: Mon,  8 Jan 2001 10:06:16 -0500
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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