On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Toby Thain wrote:
You can get really really close to that dream with TeX
based tools like LyX,
etc (and indeed Blue Sky Research had a wysiwyg TeX system back in the late
1980s).
While troff can get stuff done in its area, for heavy duty work and exacting
typography, TeX's markup blows troff out of the water, I am afraid.
Heh, yeah. I'd defy anyone to typeset a Bible with troff, but I did it
reasonably well with XeLaTeX.
-uso.