> the "print/texlive" port is how ridiculously large it is. because it comes with the whole distribution. i never tested but https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/ seems to fix it by downloading stuff on demand. however, another problem with tex is performance. troff is blazing fast. however...
> "textproc/groff" port (disclosure: which i maintain). The roff(7) > The "textproc/heirloom-doctools" port is a serious contender for a ... i tried nroff long time ago so i tried to create templates for memos and letters with layouts where: A is company logo and info B is for metainfo about the current letter C is the actual body ┌─────┐┌─────┐ │A ││B │ └─────┘└─────┘ ┌────────────┐ │ C │ └────────────┘ ┌─┐┌─────┐ │A││C │ │B││ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ └─┘└─────┘ i tried both of those (you can achieve this with latex minipages) but i never made it work so i gave out. did i miss a fine didactic documentation about it ? regards marc ps: i think it was the plan9 troff, > documentation of groff is vastly superior to LaTeX, and LaTeX > documentation is so extremely huge and fragmented that it's > a terrible challenge to find anything you need). well ... i have to admit i tried harder with LaTeX but thanks to CTAN, i reached the point when i know what are the classes and packages i need (mostly article, book, beamer and tikz). there is no CTAN for troff and that's a missing part. > out LaTeX is easier to program than roff(7) because the syntax and > semantics of the low-level roff(7) language are, let's put it > politely, quite unusual and surprising in many details. i love the way you're saying that. is there a document to dive into it ? > groff, and besides, i did implement considerable parts of the roff > language in /usr/src/usr.bin/mandoc/roff.c. nice. thank you for mandoc! regards marc
