From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Akshat To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7D11) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:25:56 -0700 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters Topicbox-Message-UUID: 55b3fb76-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 wrote: > On 12 September 2010 00:18, Russ Cox 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 >