Re: [Groff] Why is it...

2007-12-15 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007, Michael Kerpan wrote: ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as obsolete and only useful for man pages, despite the fact that it can do everything that TeX/LaTeX (seemingly the favored non-WYSIWYG document processor) can do but while taking up 3 megabytes

Re: [Groff] Why is it...

2007-12-15 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 15/12/07 04:25:40, Michael Kerpan wrote: ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as obsolete ... IMO it is all a matter of perceptions. People think that a 30 year old application that, even today, does not have a GUI **must** be obsolete. Add to this, *roff does not conform

RE: [Groff] Why is it...

2007-12-15 Thread Ted Harding
On 14-Dec-07 17:25:40, Michael Kerpan wrote: ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as obsolete and only useful for man pages, despite the fact that it can do everything that TeX/LaTeX (seemingly the favored non-WYSIWYG document processor) can do but while taking up 3

Re: [Groff] Why is it...

2007-12-15 Thread Jeff Zhang
On Dec 15, 2007 1:25 AM, Michael Kerpan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as obsolete and only useful for man pages, despite the fact that it can do everything that TeX/LaTeX (seemingly the favored non-WYSIWYG document processor) can do but while