Larry McVoy writes:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:15:43PM -0800, Jon
Steinhart wrote:
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.
Source code control for the win.
Well, you're correct, but not practical with human editors. I'm not
talking about revision history, I'm talking about the ability to easily
highlight a portion of text and comment "did you mean foo?" and so on.
That part of the production process feedback loop is missing. Of course,
with *roff one could mostly produce one's own stuff without needing human
editors and a production staff.