From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:25:02 -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: 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 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. >