Re: [TUHS] Demise of TeX and groff (was: roff(7))

arnold(a)skeeve.com writes: Having been through this sort of stuff fairly recently, I wrote a short script that converted my troff macros into OpenOffice XML format because my publisher wanted Word. As I think I mentioned earlier, I also had a script that converted pic into SVG so that it could be included in Word docs. There were two difficulties. First, while I could have SVG pics, I had to insert them into the doc manually, couldn't figure how to do that in the XML. Second was that I ended up sending PDFs of the tables to one of the layout people as I couldn't come up with a decent way to convert those. An interesting aspect of this is that I grew up on the simple layout that was easy to do in tbl which is hard to do in Word as its tables are overly gaudy. The big thing missing from *roff from a publishing point of view is a good way to make comments and respond to them. Kind of a must-have when working with human (not text) editors. Jon