From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pmarin.mail@gmail.com (pmarin) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:10:28 +0100 Subject: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts In-Reply-To: References: <201103251150.p2PBoXHo006823@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0ae3f90-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 > >