1 Jan
2022
1 Jan
'22
9:15 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 11:56:05AM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I was troff friends with W Richard Stevens, he shared with me a lot of
what he did in troff. He did the two pass thing. Nice guy and got as
much out of roff that anyone could, all of his books were troff.
The only
negative reaction was table of contents complaints, LaTex is
2 pass so it can do them, roff is one pass so you have to fiddle with
things. A lot.
I solved that issue in later documents with two passes in the Makefile
targets, frobbing things like references and contents in between.