From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:25:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb84584c21a765bd6834c5537daa2de2@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103251150.p2PBoXHo006823@localhost.localdomain>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-25 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 6:18 Allan Heim
2011-03-24 13:16 ` hiro
2011-03-24 13:55 ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-03-25 11:50 ` Aharon Robbins
2011-03-25 12:25 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-03-25 12:37 ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-25 15:10 ` pmarin
2011-03-25 15:23 ` dexen deVries
2011-03-25 15:32 ` John Floren
2011-03-25 15:41 ` John Floren
2011-03-25 20:21 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-03-25 18:56 ` [9fans] info bashing Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-25 19:08 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 19:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-25 19:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 16:48 ` [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts Bakul Shah
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2011-03-22 17:10 Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 17:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-03-22 17:44 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 18:21 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-03-22 18:46 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 18:48 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 18:48 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 18:59 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 19:23 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 21:00 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 21:35 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 21:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 21:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-22 22:06 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 22:09 ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-03-22 22:31 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 22:55 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-22 23:42 ` Steve Simon
2011-03-22 23:47 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 19:08 ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-22 19:22 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 19:50 ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-22 20:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-03-22 21:23 ` Steve Simon
2011-03-22 20:26 ` pmarin
2011-03-23 21:38 ` Stanley Lieber
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