30 Nov
2020
30 Nov
'20
7:25 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:55 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)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.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled,
maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous
flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the
detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and
absurdly the gigantic tenebrous ultimate gods --the blind, voiceless,
mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep. (Lovecraft)