12 Jan
2022
12 Jan
'22
5:18 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:48:12PM -0600, Blake McBride wrote:
Some things TeX and troff are going to need in
order to continue:
1. Continue to be maintained
2. An effort to make knowledge of them wider will have to occur if they
are to continue.
3. A case for their benefit will have to be made and dispersed.
Well, someone could do what I tried (and failed) to do: make Word
produce high quality eqn/tbl/pic/troff source as their internal
format.
There was such a thing for TeX, can't remember the name, but my
Dad (very computer not savvy) used it to write a book. It was
WYSIWYG but spit out TeX.