[TUHS] Re: Collecting notes for future “historians” was: Earliest UNIX Workstations?

On 27 Jan 2023, at 11:54, segaloco via TUHS &lt;tuhs(a)tuhs.org&gt; wrote: You just got my head all abuzz on whether a *roff<->MediaWiki transpiler would be: 1. Possible and 2. Beneficial. We use a MediaWiki at work for aggregating random tidbits from people that they think might get lost in project noise. There's times I'd love to have some way to *roff-ize the materials for white papers, the printouts from MediaWiki are uuuuugly. Benefits on the flip-side would be rapidly getting all sorts of documentation into Wiki format pretty quickly. Of course, for an actual documentation project, there would need to be a master as diverse edits in different places wouldn't track with one another. In this case, the *roff sources would probably make a better master for diff reasons. - Matt G. ------- Original Message ------- > On Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 4:36 PM, G. Branden Robinson &lt;g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Joseph, > At 2023-01-26T14:41:50-0800, Joseph Holsten wrote: >> And if I’m writing in troff, is there a preferred macro set for >> articles these days? A decade ago I wrote manuals in mdoc but papers >> in LaTeX; these days I just lean on pandoc to translate. I’ll need to >> knock my rust off. > There's always ms. It's pretty easy to acquire, and will produce > authentic looking traditional Unix papers with little effort. Here's a > manual that Larry Kollar and I wrote, in source and PDF forms. It's > gotten positive feedback from the groff mailing list. > Regards, > Branden