From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <201112121028.aa27808@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <201112121242.aa15416@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <201112121242.aa15416@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Bakul Shah Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:22:28 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4e47bf70-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 For drawings I just use a graphical editor that can output TeX or EPS (or ro= ll my own - but haven't needed that in many years). For text TeXworks with i= ts side by side display of raw text and formatted output provides quick feed= back to get some formatting details right. Switching to XeTeX also means I c= an use Unicode and not some ugly transliteration. With this setup I can focu= s on content for the most part. On Dec 12, 2011, at 4:42 AM, John Stalker wrote: >> come to think of it, contemporary layout restrictions did rob us of >> Fermat's own proof of his theorem. >> more seriously, yes, of course you're going to have to select a formattin= g >> system that can >> cope with what you need to express. equations are one thing. the things >> that never, ever work well >> for me in computer-assisted typesetting are drawing, unless they are very= >> simple or i am very lucky. >=20 > For drawing, nothing beats rolling your own PostScript. Which leads > me to a complaint about both TeX and troff. Both will happily typeset > whole PostScript documents, but extreme trickery is needed to get them > to produce fragments which can be inserted into hand rolled diagrams. >=20 > --=20 > John Stalker > School of Mathematics > Trinity College Dublin > tel +353 1 896 1983 > fax +353 1 896 2282 >=20