From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:35:19 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - Re: 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> Message-ID: <4f202ee6-65af-f027-8833-299bc7b0726a@telegraphics.com.au> On 2017-04-12 10:25 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > On 2017-04-12 10:16 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Toby Thain wrote: >> >>> You can get really really close to that dream with TeX based tools >>> like LyX, etc (and indeed Blue Sky Research had a wysiwyg TeX system >>> back in the late 1980s). >>> >>> 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. >> >> Heh, yeah. I'd defy anyone to typeset a Bible with troff, but I did it >> reasonably well with XeLaTeX. > > I did a 400+ page novel in it once. This had a few benefits. One was Since it was a bit unclear from context: I'm referring to TeX here and below. > that the same markup could generate double spaced typewriter-style > printouts for the novelist to bind and scribble his corrections on, > while at the same time producing the final plate-ready negatives for the > printer. > > Sadly I'm not called much to use it any more but it's a tangible > pleasure when I do. > > (Although I have to say that I don't like CMR much.) > > --T > >> >> -uso. >> > >