Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976))

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:48:49PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote: I had n/troff on the BSD based vaxen that UW-Madison CS had. There was a standard binder of docs (that I still have 35+ years later) that had the troff, -ms, -man, -me, tbl, eqn, pic, refer docs (no grap, sadly, I wrote my own). The Masscomps I used had working roffs. I've been using troff since well before 1985 (I found that Masscomp restor.e doc, it was 1985 but I was well into troff by then, I started with -man and -ms but was experimenting with -me for that paper. I liked -me well enough but -ms just made more sense to me so I went back to that and have been there ever since). The 3B1 that my roommate and I shared had working roff. I don't remember how we got stuff printed, I was for sure using troff for years before the postscript one came about. So for once, I'm gonna side with Clem on this one. I've always had troff and been very happy with it. I know LaTex sort of won but I'm not a fan. --lm P.S. Groff is C++, not C. That made it dicey until g++ got stable.