From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:25:27 -0400 Subject: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts In-Reply-To: <201103251150.p2PBoXHo006823@localhost.localdomain> References: <201103251150.p2PBoXHo006823@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: c076fe2c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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