From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:25:58 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5520c658-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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