From: andreas.kahari@icm.uu.se (Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri)
Subject: [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - Re: SunOS 4 documentation
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:41:31 +0200 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:25:02PM -0400, Toby Thain wrote:
> On 2017-04-12 10:16 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Toby Thain wrote:
> >
> > > You can get really really close to that dream with TeX based tools
> > > like LyX, etc (and indeed Blue Sky Research had a wysiwyg TeX system
> > > back in the late 1980s).
> > >
> > > While troff can get stuff done in its area, for heavy duty work and
> > > exacting typography, TeX's markup blows troff out of the water, I am
> > > afraid.
> >
> > Heh, yeah. I'd defy anyone to typeset a Bible with troff, but I did it
> > reasonably well with XeLaTeX.
>
> I did a 400+ page novel in it once. This had a few benefits. One was that
> the same markup could generate double spaced typewriter-style printouts for
> the novelist to bind and scribble his corrections on, while at the same time
> producing the final plate-ready negatives for the printer.
>
> Sadly I'm not called much to use it any more but it's a tangible pleasure
> when I do.
>
> (Although I have to say that I don't like CMR much.)
>
> --T
Hi all,
Some years ago, I did part of the proof-reading for the UTP revival
project (UTP = the book "Unix Text Processing", the original sources of
the book were sadly lost) since I happened to own a copy of the book
itself and quite enjoyed using troff for all sorts of things.
If anyone's interested, I believe the final product (PDf and sources)
may be found at
ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/
Regards,
Kusalananda (Andreas Kähäri)
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-12 21:54 [TUHS] " Cory Smelosky
2017-04-12 22:55 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-04-12 23:31 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-13 2:13 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-13 2:16 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-04-13 2:25 ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Toby Thain
2017-04-13 14:25 ` Nemo
2017-04-13 15:41 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri [this message]
2017-04-13 16:35 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-13 2:20 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2017-04-13 13:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-13 15:40 ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Toby Thain
2017-04-13 23:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14 0:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-14 1:59 ` Nemo
2017-04-14 3:00 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-14 2:59 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-14 13:38 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14 13:56 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-04-14 16:55 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14 22:24 ` Toby Thain
[not found] ` <CAHfSdrVAnPn3hwFR0ie0o-yuqGX0hu+LWweNZngpoY4=efTSaA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-15 14:23 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-04-15 15:09 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-15 16:07 ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Mutiny
2017-04-15 21:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-15 22:12 ` ron minnich
2017-04-16 0:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-15 15:27 ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Clem Cole
2017-04-15 17:05 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-15 17:10 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-18 4:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-14 13:07 ` Wolfgang Helbig
2017-04-14 20:56 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-16 13:42 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-04-13 14:14 ` [TUHS] " Nemo
2017-04-13 16:34 ` Steve Simon
2017-04-13 23:14 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14 8:30 ` Steve Simon
2017-04-14 13:21 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-13 13:28 ` John Labovitz
2017-04-17 18:56 [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Doug McIlroy
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