On 4/25/2021 10:43 PM, TK Chia wrote:
Hello Ralf,
Still an excellent tool I consider TROFF, now GROFF, for Unix/Linux
-which also exists for Windows, appeared in 1990 (Version 0.3.1) by
James Clark) coming from “a text-formatting program called RUNOFF,
which was written by Jerome H. Saltzer for MIT's CTSS operating system
in the mid-1960s!
I wouldn't touch any of that stuff with a barge pole these days. Either
LibreOffice Writer already fits the bill, or I would much rather use a
tool like Scribus these days...
troff (as groff) is still very much alive today, as far as I can tell.
And the troff format is still the default source format for man pages on
Linux. It is quite a good format for the job, if you ask me.
Well, it all depends on what you are used to. I haven't used any of that
troff (etc) stuff in +30 years now, ever since GUI deskops and apps for
it started to become usable. Actually, even on DOS we used WordPerfect
to create a several hundred pages user manual for the CAD software
company I was working for in the late '80s, early '90s.
Ralf
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