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From: "John A. Murdie" <john@cs.york.ac.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, john@cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Mon,  8 Jan 2001 15:17:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14FeGK-0003LK-00@minster.cs.york.ac.uk> (raw)


 Mark C. Otto writes:
>A package that seems to build on both troff and TeX is lout,

I've followed lout almost since day one. It's very nicely written,
and I've never had any problems installing it on various Unix
derivatives. Try notating a diagram in its pic-equivalent language,
however, and I think you'll find that it's far less elegant. This
is a result of it using a general applicative language style instead
of a little language.

John A. Murdie
Department of Computer Science
University of York
England



             reply	other threads:[~2001-01-08 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-08 15:17 John A. Murdie [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-08 10:29 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 15:06 ` Mark C. Otto
2001-01-07 15:17 rob pike
2001-01-08  9:54 ` Luis Fernandes
2001-01-08 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-08 20:07   ` Dan Cross
2001-01-12  9:32     ` saroj
2001-01-12 17:17       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-12 17:51         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:25         ` saroj
2001-01-12 18:20       ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-12 18:51       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:31         ` saroj
2001-01-08 17:19 ` James A. Robinson
2001-01-08 19:21   ` Howard Trickey
2001-01-09  9:38     ` Andy Newman
2001-01-09  9:54       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-10  0:16 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-11  9:50   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-02 10:54 steve.simon
2001-01-03  8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05  9:49   ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05 14:52     ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-27 19:26 James A. Robinson
2001-01-02 17:44 ` John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05  9:48 ` Allan J. Heim
2001-01-05 14:54   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05 19:29     ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-06 17:53       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-07  1:20         ` Steve Kilbane
2000-08-19 21:44 Boyd Roberts

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