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 20549 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2022 20:36:39 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jan 2022 20:36:39 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7D97A9CFFE; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:36:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C43B9CFC9; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:36:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C4E2F9CFC9; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:36:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 517729C78F for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:36:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id C032E35E1AB; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:36:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:36:18 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Jon Steinhart Message-ID: <20220111203618.GA3441@mcvoy.com> References: <20220101031511.GB8135@mcvoy.com> <20220111015901.GE25103@eureka.lemis.com> <4409b91cd794867d@orthanc.ca> <20220111024218.GE3441@mcvoy.com> <20220111051247.GC61872@eureka.lemis.com> <202201110857.20B8v9vB020861@freefriends.org> <202201112015.20BKFhWT2355400@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20220111202241.GZ3441@mcvoy.com> <202201112026.20BKQC9r2356242@darkstar.fourwinds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202201112026.20BKQC9r2356242@darkstar.fourwinds.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Demise of 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@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:26:12PM -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Larry McVoy writes: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:15:43PM -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote: > > > The big thing missing from *roff from a publishing point of view is > > > a good way to make comments and respond to them. Kind of a must-have > > > when working with human (not text) editors. > > > > Source code control for the win. > > Well, you're correct, but not practical with human editors. I'm not > talking about revision history, I'm talking about the ability to easily > highlight a portion of text and comment "did you mean foo?" and so on. > That part of the production process feedback loop is missing. Of course, > with *roff one could mostly produce one's own stuff without needing human > editors and a production staff. I wrote the GUIs for BitKeeper, I could absolutely give you exactly what you want. Really, what you are describing is our code review system which could done done completely in a web browser but if you needed to hack on things, you cloned it and hacked on it and pushed. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm