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Subject: Re: [TUHS] roff(7)
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I actually strongly prefer TeX/LaTeX to *roff.  But LaTeX does have
its Knuthian and Stanfordish peculiarities.  It helps if you read
The TeXbook first and understand Tex's macro weirdness and \catcodes.

Both systems have their blind spots.  Ditroff fixes most of the
big ones in nroff/troff, of course...

Chris