From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:10:19 -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> <20170413022029.GM14143@mcvoy.com> <20170413134151.c2Hvf%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20170413232259.53GdF%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20170414004048.GC28292@eureka.lemis.com> <20170414133804.ZyUiK%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: <902a6533-9638-d15d-6c3a-016458a12e25@telegraphics.com.au> On 2017-04-15 11:27 AM, Clem Cole wrote: > > ... > Anyway - it fine to say you don't like troff - please feel free to > suggest that you don't think that it can be made to your > style/preferences. But please don't sling to many insults as the truth > is, that troff is still useful to many people and a lot people do still > like it. I'm not saying I "don't like troff". I don't care what anyone uses. > > In my own case, I'll use TeX if a colleague wants too, but I'm a fair > bit faster with troff than almost any other doc prep system for any > document of almost any size; but particularly when the documents get > large such as book. But that's me; although I note it is also a lot of > other people. As Brian points out, many of the Pearson and Wiley texts > use troff; and of course you have to note that my old deskmate, Tim ...and of course I know books have been set with troff. That's irrelevant to the point I was making: Tools of different generations, with different provenance, ambitions, designs, and capabilities. I hope no confusion remains. --T > O'Reilly founded his empire on it 😂 (I still have a copy of the his > original style manual they wrote for the Masscomp engineers and doc > writers in the mid 80s). > Clem