From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 11:25:37 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF? In-Reply-To: <201805141818.w4EIImT0016471@darkstar.fourwinds.com> References: <201805141219.w4ECJo5G030533@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20180514150431.GB26148@mcvoy.com> <20180514151134.GC26148@mcvoy.com> <201805141521.w4EFLQK8025059@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <402237b0-3ea0-db27-1670-a2e9db94e197@gmail.com> <201805141813.w4EID65f027854@freefriends.org> <201805141818.w4EIImT0016471@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: <20180514182537.GI26148@mcvoy.com> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:18:48AM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote: > arnold at skeeve.com writes: > > Nemo Nusquam wrote: > > > > > On 05/14/18 11:21, Jon Steinhart wrote (in part): > > > > Also, as part of the book project, I have a script that I've written that > > > > converts the original troff source into OpenOffice XHTML since my publisher > > > > won't do troff. > > > > > > I am curious about PHI. Tannenbaum praises troff in his prefaces (and > > > says that all his books are written in troff). Not much on the PHI website. > > > > > > N. > > > > This is getting off-topic. Prentice Hall (Pearson) generally works with > > Word but they are able to make allowance for other formats. For sure TeX, > > and they can work with troff if the author wants to provide the "camera > > ready copy" themselves (see, for example, Brian's book on Go, done with > > groff). > > > > I wrote my PH book in Texinfo and the converted it to DocBook XML; they > > used a contractor to actually go from there to typesettable copy. > > > > Arnold > > Well, this issue, at least in my case, isn't troff per-se. It's that editors > and such want to be able to read test, make comments in the margins, and track > changes. I would claim that troff, tex, et. al. are great tools for people > who write stuff and shepherd it to publication which is great for specs and > technical papers and all that. What's lacking is tools for the involvement > of third-parties such as editors. I've successfully used troff to write our commercial contract. I collaborated with a guy at Fenwick&West, taught him enough troff -ms that he could make changes. We sourced 6 different contracts from one doc and the lawyer *loved* that, he really wanted that fuctionality in Word.