I've been wondering whether it is possible and worthwhile to use *roff
for complex technical documentation. I've always loved the aesthetic
that books produced using *roff have but there are other reasons too.
Ditto. The books that used roff can look clean and within a series are usually consistent, but what I've like is that they are different.
The Prentiss-Hall series and the ORA books both were produced using troff and different versions of ms, but the results are different.
One of my complained with LaTex books is they all seem to look the same.
Getting back to *roff, does anybody know if there is a (hopefully rich)
repository of macros, or any other resources, for my use case?
I've never seen one. As far as I knew it, publishers sometimes seeded authors. ORA used the Masscomp/Tektronix derived version of ms (-mS) that Steve Talbot created (and Rick LeFaivre originally created from the original Lesk V7 set). Rich Steven's has his own additions to the version of ms that came with groff which I have also seen.