1 Dec
2020
1 Dec
'20
12:46 a.m.
We seem to be straying into COFF-land. However...
On 11/30/20 13:25, John Cowan wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:55 AM Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com
<mailto:clemc@ccc.com>> wrote:
I wish we lived in a troff world but we don't
Yep
I think O'Reilly was the last commercial publisher with a troff
toolchain. Nowadays they accept HTMLBook (their own static subset of
HTML5), DocBook, ASCIIDoc (analogous to Markdown but plain-text
DocBook as opposed to plain-text HTML), Word, and in some cases
InDesign or PDF.
I wonder what Tanenbaum does these days? Prefaces of earlier versions
of all his texts stated that they were written with troff. (And Springer
accepts mostly LaTeX.)
N.
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