From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <24b6a153e443aa375714b80fe48294de@swcp.com> References: <24b6a153e443aa375714b80fe48294de@swcp.com> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:17:10 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] docfonts problem From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 55a3399e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Now for the problem behind all this. =C2=A0I am basically required to use= troff > for formatting the iwp9 paper submissions. =C2=A0I have asked repeatedly = for the > a TeX macros, or the source for an acceptable macro.ms equivalents. =C2= =A0All of > these requests have been greeted with silence because someone, and I woul= d > have to guess who, is discouraging the use of TeX for these submissions. > Frankly troff has been a pain, and I do not use it for anything else, and > will not except for necessary plan9 related documentation. =C2=A0Thanks f= or the > work around BTW, but next time I rebuild plan9port it will be blown away > unless I add these dance steps to the ebuilds. =C2=A0See the chicken ant = the egg > problem? It's just not that hard to use the iwp9 macros with plan9port. They work fine, and if you put .FP luxisans at the top of your ms file you can get a nice-looking B&H-designed sans serif font too. And then when you submit the source to them you or they can delete that one line. It's easy. Or you can run 9vx pointed at a real Plan 9 ISO image and run Plan 9 in all its glory. That's easy too. You're making things a lot harder than they need to be. Russ