From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 18:54:19 +0200 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] troff and ps related Topicbox-Message-UUID: 190a44ba-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Perhaps we should use troff and just convert it to tex? Because I also hate to write/read tex. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrot= e: > 2009/7/8 Russ Cox : >> I assume you have a non-Plan 9 machine to play with. >> It's worth trying Heirloom troff there to see if the boxes >> are done better. =C2=A0They probably are. > > as far as I see, they are not better. > >> I need to fall back to the Plan 9 troff, because the low-level >> details seem to differ between the two. > > so, unlike TeX, different troffs produce different outputs, right? > >> Honestly the box drawing has never really bothered me. >> I don't draw boxes around things because it's too noisy >> for my tastes anyway. > > it's not only boxes; it's tables, as I mentioned, as well. > > Thanks > Ruda > >