15 Sep
2019
15 Sep
'19
8:56 a.m.
On 14/09/2019 03:44, Warren Toomey wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 07:02:40PM -0700, Larry McVoy
wrote:
> Roff has some pretty sophisticated stuff (environments come to mind) that
> I think 99.9% of the CS world doesn't understand
This thread about *roff echoes something that I have been thinking about
recently.
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.
As far as _markup_ is concerned we have DocBook for example. I am also
looking into this. (Also, I understand it's not a typesetting system.)
Getting back to *roff, does anybody know if there is a (hopefully rich)
repository of macros, or any other resources, for my use case? (La)TeX
has this but I'd like to try something else. What do people think?
Kind regards,
Andrew
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