> and which, if either would be most suitable for producing a > magazine?
This is difficult to say. In case you use, say, three columns a page, I suggest TeX due to its better paragraph formatting capabilities. If you need a plain-text output also, then roff is probably the better choice. I see much of this as a matter of style, too. Do you use emacs or vi/ed? We vi and ed users are so used to the UNIX mentality of doing things that learning emacs is like an assault on UNIX. ed only takes a single character for a command, is fast and efficient, and once you learn the code sequences, it is so easy and fast to use, whereas emacs is much more intuitive (at least for the time). I think TeX and roff are that way. What is interesting is that I learned TeX first, but when I started using groff, I already knew some of the parlance because of my use of UNIX (such as BSD, Xenix, or Sun), and it fit right into that mold, and seemed to gel easier with the other UNIX tools. That's a bit of a biased perspective, but whether you use roff, or TeX, can depend as much on style and familiarity as it can the strengths and weaknesses of both. I've got so I like groff because it fits my UNIX way of thinking, but still use TeX because it has options that I find easier that groff. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
