From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: From: =?koi8-r?B?4dfT1MnOIOvJzQ==?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 13:13:37 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8J2) Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c37f376-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 IMHO, for anything on the scale of a doctoral dissertation, a better solutio= n 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 c= omplexity will readily attest. All the best. =EF=D4=D0=D2=C1=D7=CC=C5=CE=CF =D3 iPhone Dec 2, 2011, =D7 13:00, Francisco J Ballesteros =CE=C1=D0=C9= =D3=C1=CC(=C1): > 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. >=20 > Doing it in troff required me to write a few scripts to > generate some of the tables. >=20 > 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). >=20 >=20