From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12820 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2022 01:53:27 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jan 2022 01:53:27 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9DAAF9C1B0; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:53:24 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6DD9C0CA; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:52:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4E0949C0CA; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:52:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADEC9C0BE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:52:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD8F280CB; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B085D2635C0; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:52:50 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:52:50 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Richard Salz Message-ID: <20220111015250.GD25103@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20211231234039.GU31637@mcvoy.com> <20220101005605.GL75481@eureka.lemis.com> <20220101031511.GB8135@mcvoy.com> <20220110203300.GY3441@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [TUHS] Recognizing TeX (was: TeX and groff (was: roff(7))) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list , Douglas McIlroy Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 10 January 2022 at 15:37:01 -0500, Richard Salz wrote: >> It's a double edged sword. TeX looks better but you instantly know it is >> TeX, it has a particular look. Troff looks just fine to me, and you don't >> know it is Troff, Word, or what. > > Less flippantly, I know it's TeX is probably mostly about the fonts. Agreed. There's also something about the default layout with overly large margins. But I know how to change fonts on groff; my attempts with TeX were complete failures. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmHc4vIACgkQIubykFB6QiMbDgCggX1zMW7LecoOEWzbDfI9b8Xh EhEAn0Hx244jyQXg+i3vaXSPKm1pZF5p =Vkfd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM--