[9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

[john@jfloren.net (John Floren)]

Evidence: http://jfloren.net/its-info.png

That's a screenshot of Info running on an ITS system :)


John

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:32 AM, John Floren <john at jfloren.net> wrote:
> Well, I think it's more that Richard Stallman was so ridiculously in
> love with ITS's documentation system (which was pretty good for its
> time, I admit) that he decided to clone it for Unix.
>
> Could the bloat of GNU tools merely be a ploy by rms to force people
> into using info? :)
>
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:10 AM, pmarin <pmarin.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My theory is that GNU tools were so bloated by design that they
>> realized that they ?couldn't write a decent man page for their tools
>> so they invented the ?info pages and the --help flag.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro at quanstro.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri Mar 25 07:52:10 EDT 2011, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>>>> I really like the GNU project's Texinfo markup language, which
>>>> sets on top of TeX, but you don't have to know TeX. (I've been using
>>>> Texinfo for > 20 years, but don't know any TeX.)
>>>>
>>>> I've written books in troff, Docbook/XML, and Texinfo, and Texinfo is
>>>> by far the easiest.
>>>
>>> i never could get past the fact that texbook reeks of hubris
>>> and nih, nor forgive gnu for using info as an excuse for not
>>> having man pages. ?that, and the fact that it's at least 100x
>>> slower than troff, and the reader requires cursor addressing.
>>>
>>> - erik
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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