From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steve@quintile.net (Steve Simon) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:34:44 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] SunOS 4 documentation In-Reply-To: References: <1492034056.640146.943005264.77830DD6@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1492037730.652251.943052704.39811DAC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20170412233158.GB14143@mcvoy.com> <08eb864b-784b-28e5-63b3-420cfbc5f684@telegraphics.com.au> <20170413022029.GM14143@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <47E9A616-0D37-45DA-841E-70F229045423@quintile.net> i haven't tried it in anger but bwk's pm(1) troff post-proscessor, which does paragraph at at a time layout, is available as a plan9 package. written in c++ so early that cfront will compile it. -Steve > On 13 Apr 2017, at 15:14, Nemo wrote: > > On 12 April 2017 at 22:20, Larry McVoy wrote: > [.. >>> While troff can get stuff done in its area, for heavy duty work and exacting >>> typography, TeX's markup blows troff out of the water, I am afraid. >> >> I'd like to learn more about that. I'd done a ton of stuff in troff, >> had to do a paper recently in LaTex and I did not find it at all better. >> It was a technical paper, usual stuff, text and tables and figures >> and references. I'm not great at LaTex so maybe it's just my bias >> but I really like troff. In fairness, I like groff, I got James to hack >> some stuff into pic for me. >> >> But it started with troff. I still remember walking out of the computer >> science bookstore with a copy of the troff manual. That was sort of my >> introduction to Unix and it fits. > > I started off with troff (on Suns) and then the dep't installed (La)TeX. I > switched to LaTeX because I was writing math and it looks better in the > latter (as Knuth intended). I dabbled with TeX but never stuck to it -- too > much like assembler. Interestingly, the secretarial staff learnt TeX and > the grad students all used LaTeX. > > At work, we once used noweb (and xfig and pstex) to document our code. > This was well before doxygen and I think it worked fairly well (despite the > extra steps). > > N.