On 2006.12.18 09:51 Howard Lowndes wrote:
Robert Thorsby 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? :)
Yeah. It all started when I wanted to produce a weekly tide chart for
printing to a semi-decent-quality laser printer. Using a shell script
to produce a LyX file -- now THAT'S masochism!
After using LyX, groff came as light relief.
Robert
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