Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters

[Akshat <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

If you like the cleanliness and simplicity of troff files for writing
papers, and would like to avoid the hideousness of TeX, then you might
want to try Lout. I ported it to Plan 9 earlier this year and just
copied it to my contrib: contrib/akumar/lout.tgz


Best of luck,
ak

On Sep 12, 2010, at 2:25, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 September 2010 00:18, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> That sounds about right, unfortunately.
>> You might be better off just using TeX.
>> It's better at math, it runs on Plan 9,
>> and your colleagues who don't use
>> Plan 9 will still be able to collaborate
>> on documents with you.
>>
>> Russ
>
> Thanks for the answer.
> I've actually used TeX and LaTeX for more than 15 years. LaTeX is de
> facto standard for physics journals.
> But for private work LaTeX is a no-way for me --- plain TeX is much
> simpler without illegible complex macros.
> When acquianted with troff, tbl, eqn, grap, pic, I started to like
> their simplicity, smallness. And basically I can do almost all my work
> with them.
>
> Ok. I will have to think. Maybe TeX really is the right choice for
> me now.
>
> But, generally. If troff in plan9 is to be a serious tool in the
> future, the procedure must be simplified, I believe. I think that
> plan9 troff should be able to use (read metrics) from otf/t1/ttf fonts
> (like the Heirloom troff can).
>
> Thank you
> Ruda
>