5 Sep
2017
5 Sep
'17
11:55 p.m.
On 05/09/2017, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 4:25 PM, ron minnich
<rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I may written this before but Tanenbaum, in his many prefaces, praises
troff and states that all his books are written with troff.
N.
I've found it weird to say the least that
usenix doesn't accept troff,
but will take Word documents.
The plan 9 troff pipeline is still quite complete. A few years back Russ
Cox pointed out that new CPUs were so fast that running a
statically-linked
troff pipeline to process a paper was pretty much instantaneous.
He was right and, for a few years, for tech papers, I just switched back
to troff/tbl/pic/grap and friends. It was nice.
I used 'tbl' at work the other day and sent the results to Ron in an email;
it was nice that it "just worked."
- Dan C.