On Monday 18 December 2006 08:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am a 60 tear old who lives in the bush and is totally self taught. I > > know no programming languages at all, but I can do almost anything I > > want by using a combination of bash, sed and awk. As a "proof of > > concept" I wrote a bash script for writing a letter on "letterhead" > > paper, using dialog boxes for input and groff for typesetting -- I now > > use my script in preference to firing up Open Office! > > groff ??!! Are you some sort of masochist? :)
Stephens in "Unix network programming" writes that he wrote the book with vi and typeset it with groff using modified macros. I use groff lots. I'm familiar with it and I love its power and simplicity (simplicity means unknown stuff is predictable) eg I want to put the date into a vi document. How do I do that dunno, how about .. :r read something into my document ! from a shell date date command (:r ! date) I can create an invoice and print it faster than you can fire up openoffice! So "masochist" despite <tongue in cheek> and <funny> is also a reflection on YOU. But then i find python too complex .... go figure James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
