15 Apr
2017
15 Apr
'17
7:10 p.m.
On 2017-04-15 11:27 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
...
Anyway - it fine to say you don't like troff - please feel free to
suggest that you don't think that it can be made to your
style/preferences. But please don't sling to many insults as the truth
is, that troff is still useful to many people and a lot people do still
like it.
I'm not saying I "don't like troff". I don't care what anyone
uses.
In my own case, I'll use TeX if a colleague wants too, but I'm a fair
bit faster with troff than almost any other doc prep system for any
document of almost any size; but particularly when the documents get
large such as book. But that's me; although I note it is also a lot of
other people. As Brian points out, many of the Pearson and Wiley texts
use troff; and of course you have to note that my old deskmate, Tim
...and of course I know books have been set with troff. That's
irrelevant to the point I was making: Tools of different generations,
with different provenance, ambitions, designs, and capabilities. I hope
no confusion remains.
--T
O'Reilly founded his empire on it 😂 (I still have
a copy of the his
original style manual they wrote for the Masscomp engineers and doc
writers in the mid 80s).
Clem