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

Mary Ann Horton wrote in <695e2970-00f2-ab55-8c1a-9fbd03add77f(a)mhorton.net>: |I recall attending a TeX lecture by Knuth around 1981. He said he wasn't |satisfied with the character layout from other formatting programs, |which drove him to write TeX. He illustrated in great detail the kerning |and exact placement of the font characters next to each other. I |couldn't tell the difference, but clearly it was very important to him. |He wanted his documents to look perfect. I find with proof-reading roff provides very pleasant results; the german translation of K&R Programming in C (2nd Ed., ANSI C; so many credits to people on this list!!!) was produced in roff (Liangs hyphenation, Kernighans pic, Lesks tbl, Kernighan and Cherrys eqn, XENIX-adjusted d-i troff of ELAN; November 1989), it could not look better. I personally feel peeved when my documents do not look acceptable, but, other than that, from computer documents i do miss the spiritual, the contemplative and meditative side that calligraphically beautiful documents represent. Just recently for example a Thora that was saved from the flames reappeared here in Germany, it would be yet another massive loss of culture if this became binary or quantum. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)