13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
5:41 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:25:02PM -0400, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2017-04-12 10:16 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
Hi all,
Some years ago, I did part of the proof-reading for the UTP revival
project (UTP = the book "Unix Text Processing", the original sources of
the book were sadly lost) since I happened to own a copy of the book
itself and quite enjoyed using troff for all sorts of things.
If anyone's interested, I believe the final product (PDf and sources)
may be found at
ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/
Regards,
Kusalananda (Andreas Kähäri)
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Toby Thain wrote:
I did a 400+ page novel in it once. This had a few benefits. One was that
the same markup could generate double spaced typewriter-style printouts for
the novelist to bind and scribble his corrections on, while at the same time
producing the final plate-ready negatives for the printer.
Sadly I'm not called much to use it any more but it's a tangible pleasure
when I do.
(Although I have to say that I don't like CMR much.)
--T 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.