From: "Австин Ким" <avstin@mail.ru>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 13:13:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA6FA5CE-2C58-4746-9114-74EA9F785D32@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+N-5bZ1PA1s2SBGHs94hL8KU6x5_AD7L5ASKL1m9WhTNKe-Gg@mail.gmail.com>
IMHO, for anything on the scale of a doctoral dissertation, a better solution would be to develop a native Plan 9 C port of TeX, METAFONT, and LaTeX for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Troff is ill-suited for typesetting mathematics, as anyone who has tried to use troff to typeset formulas and equations of any complexity will readily attest.
All the best.
Отправлено с iPhone
Dec 2, 2011, в 13:00, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> написал(а):
> I have written books both in latex and in troff.
> It's a nightmare, no matter in what, to get things like
> indexes and tocs right.
>
> Doing it in troff required me to write a few scripts to
> generate some of the tables.
>
> Doing it in latex required me to write a few scripts to
> fix up things not handled well by latex (I'm sorry, but don't
> remember which ones were the actual problems, it was long ago).
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-02 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-02 13:02 hugo rivera
2011-12-02 13:15 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 13:23 ` Aharon Robbins
2011-12-02 13:33 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-02 13:40 ` Steve Simon
2011-12-02 16:08 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-02 17:54 ` John Floren
2011-12-02 18:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-12-02 18:13 ` Австин Ким [this message]
2011-12-02 18:21 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:16 ` ron minnich
2011-12-02 18:20 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-12-02 18:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-02 18:29 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:45 ` John Floren
2011-12-02 21:02 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 22:24 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:29 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:42 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-03 1:26 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-12-11 22:57 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-12 9:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 9:59 ` simon softnet
2011-12-12 10:28 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 10:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-12-12 12:04 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 12:37 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 12:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 12:42 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 14:10 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-12-12 17:46 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 17:48 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 18:42 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 19:22 ` Bakul Shah
2011-12-12 19:45 ` Steve Simon
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