From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 02672842 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 03:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 217C394792; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:03:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FB19B934; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:03:35 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=andrewnesbit.org header.i=@andrewnesbit.org header.b="OewEyKu6"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2357E9BA14; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:03:33 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 381 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:03:19 AEST Received: from fbo-4.mxes.net (fbo-4.mxes.net [198.205.123.127]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB9949B8EF for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:03:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp-out-3.mxes.net (smtp-out-3.mxes.net [198.205.123.68]) by fbi-1.mxes.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB624273B4 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:56:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Customer-MUA (mua.mxes.net [10.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0ABCB2736A; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:56:55 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=andrewnesbit.org; s=default; t=1568516217; bh=6WkEzu/juXB1h+ZhOM5cQiNBXMbL1P/6VZFoVe3Csdk=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=OewEyKu6DC5OmGft8gHCi1yAszFjvCemFjKVFxptUdnTAR0yrSO/hYUdbsgTuiGRU K+ZB7XHOYfVdXFsSS5NbOxJ//jUR+C/oGxh0uxay6Q/nQTJcICMqDmNMCwcED3XaCX t4yYR5QsaTs/JhOiqfFBQTc0eZR6BxpOwWmw/zzw= To: Warren Toomey , Larry McVoy , tuhs@tuhs.org References: <201909132024.x8DKObEP013266@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <463d5cc4-9bef-9ac3-a680-a5161d664dc1@aueb.gr> <20190913221345.GA16129@minnie.tuhs.org> <20190914020240.GO2046@mcvoy.com> <20190914024433.GA19193@minnie.tuhs.org> From: U'll Be King of the Stars Message-ID: <2e84c4d0-5239-b223-856d-00aacf8d3028@andrewnesbit.org> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 03:56:54 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190914024433.GA19193@minnie.tuhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sent-To: Subject: Re: [TUHS] earliest Unix roff 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 14/09/2019 03:44, Warren Toomey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 07:02:40PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: >> Roff has some pretty sophisticated stuff (environments come to mind) that >> I think 99.9% of the CS world doesn't understand This thread about *roff echoes something that I have been thinking about recently. I've been wondering whether it is possible and worthwhile to use *roff for complex technical documentation. I've always loved the aesthetic that books produced using *roff have but there are other reasons too. As far as _markup_ is concerned we have DocBook for example. I am also looking into this. (Also, I understand it's not a typesetting system.) Getting back to *roff, does anybody know if there is a (hopefully rich) repository of macros, or any other resources, for my use case? (La)TeX has this but I'd like to try something else. What do people think? Kind regards, Andrew -- OpenPGP key: EB28 0338 28B7 19DA DAB0 B193 D21D 996E 883B E5B9