5 Sep
2017
5 Sep
'17
10:31 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 4:25 PM, ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've found it weird to say the least that usenix
doesn't accept troff, but
will take Word documents.
The plan 9 troff pipeline is still quite complete. A few years back Russ
Cox pointed out that new CPUs were so fast that running a statically-linked
troff pipeline to process a paper was pretty much instantaneous.
He was right and, for a few years, for tech papers, I just switched back
to troff/tbl/pic/grap and friends. It was nice.
I used 'tbl' at work the other day and sent the results to Ron in an email;
it was nice that it "just worked."
- Dan C.