Frank Jahnke wrote:
From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of
hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid
beyond belief
You have to learn one of the troff macro packages. -ms is the easiest,
but I agree that a wysiwyg document
icantthinkofone wrote:
Frank Jahnke wrote:
From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of
hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid
beyond belief
You have to learn one of the troff macro packages. -ms is the easiest,
but I agree that a
Can you explain the difference between troff and groff. I thought
groff is the more useable troff, or do I have that backwards, or is
that only a fbsd replacement?
troff is the old Unix utility that drove a C/A/T typesetter. That was a
real liability -- not everyone has a typesetter -- so it
And another thing, how do you choose whether to use TeX or troff?
What's the diff?
They are different programs that do the same thing. A good comparison
might be comparing different compilers, like C and Fortran. Not that
one is more like C than the other, just that they have a different
If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX. That is
what is used more commonly. There's nothing wrong with troff, and the
support is still quite good, but all the major journals, for example,
accept TeX code but not troff. It is still a good idea to know enough
troff to do
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:33 +, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX.
I think the only place *roff is still is used is for man pages.
Well, that's an overstatement. I still use it, and there is quite an
active community on the groff support
Frank Jahnke wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:33 +, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX.
I think the only place *roff is still is used is for man pages.
Well, that's an overstatement. I still use it, and there is quite an
From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of
hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid
beyond belief
You have to learn one of the troff macro packages. -ms is the easiest,
but I agree that a wysiwyg document processor is just easier for this
