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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6944 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2023 00:54:35 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Jan 2023 00:54:35 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5467424EB; Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:54:13 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1674780853; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=vd5xFM43pNXaWSYxh81AywezaGjmR9rPlG+snACrm/0=; b=3cigs+JRUQ3Q7WV+xOyu/2lqBBU2802bn5g+oVbx/tTRXMQIX6vzsvQLkG4EzmvRgy07he rtREP3lskE/KeRGvC3qQykGRks/ZHXulS6vTeFWOQatbgFMU18g0zeVitrqBJ1tABPWleS 7x1xOhQ74OL5dSmaX4p/BoLYBR4eDqA= Received: from mail-4318.protonmail.ch (mail-4318.protonmail.ch [185.70.43.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FE50424E2 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:54:10 +1000 (AEST) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:53:51 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1674780848; x=1675040048; bh=vd5xFM43pNXaWSYxh81AywezaGjmR9rPlG+snACrm/0=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=kZGojhTlzFSHPvaqUi8/Up3ScOGqPKZknp15dmWbsMXs3vqx6laA5xTZbsq0a+Gsa rCTwbwiUA906O+TK6vbxqmN6Yt528eBkBB8tWtxZCzZQHyLgTkW/INdocgYQiLMWpI IAo0z/YCG+oPPff5Air4wP4XwP5Q0UxhCUf8QUm4Tpy6rQg3FhqCOpesmYTKevRnxT 8oF4/kIk8jQYjFWeFfmkas3RLMiXSQ31U4CO2kelQJozJBQ3/NkTcZPdBiz+8WGkWG p6ok8fgSd1oARE2g3JGFkP1qeX39jj3JOOiF0qkZ+idfkYzr+NpBqThrm/f9j4YAME l0/nD6OEx0cFA== To: "G. Branden Robinson" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20230127003612.dszdsftdjkobikx7@illithid> References: <202301261804.30QI4sd9132510@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <202301262138.30QLc6wY143500@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <620c709c-e8bb-401c-a60d-8869457caacd@app.fastmail.com> <20230127003612.dszdsftdjkobikx7@illithid> Feedback-ID: 35591162:user:proton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: EET4FD2OWMRX66XBLA33MYG5IZAHKUXN X-Message-ID-Hash: EET4FD2OWMRX66XBLA33MYG5IZAHKUXN X-MailFrom: segaloco@protonmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Joseph Holsten , Tautological Eunuch Horticultural Scythians X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] =?utf-8?q?Re=3A_Collecting_notes_for_future_=E2=80=9Chistorians=E2=80=9D_was=3A_Earliest_UNIX_Workstations=3F?= List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: segaloco via TUHS Reply-To: segaloco X-Spam: Yes You just got my head all abuzz on whether a *roff<->MediaWiki transpiler wo= uld be: 1. Possible and 2. Beneficial. We use a MediaWiki at work for aggregating random tidbits from people that = they think might get lost in project noise. There's times I'd love to have= some way to *roff-ize the materials for white papers, the printouts from M= ediaWiki are uuuuugly. Benefits on the flip-side would be rapidly getting = all sorts of documentation into Wiki format pretty quickly. Of course, for an actual documentation project, there would need to be a ma= ster as diverse edits in different places wouldn't track with one another. = In this case, the *roff sources would probably make a better master for di= ff reasons. - Matt G. ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 4:36 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Joseph, >=20 > At 2023-01-26T14:41:50-0800, Joseph Holsten wrote: >=20 > > And if I=E2=80=99m writing in troff, is there a preferred macro set for > > articles these days? A decade ago I wrote manuals in mdoc but papers > > in LaTeX; these days I just lean on pandoc to translate. I=E2=80=99ll n= eed to > > knock my rust off. >=20 >=20 > There's always ms. It's pretty easy to acquire, and will produce > authentic looking traditional Unix papers with little effort. Here's a > manual that Larry Kollar and I wrote, in source and PDF forms. It's > gotten positive feedback from the groff mailing list. >=20 > Regards, > Branden