Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

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