On Tue, Mar 18, 2014, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Peter Schaffter <[email protected]>: > > If groff is as powerful as TeX while being one tenth the size, > > why on earth does the author dismiss it out-of-hand as weirdly > > retrotech? > > That's not a mystery to me. If it stays one to you, we have a > problem; you can't plan to do anything effective against that > perception if you don't understand it.
The question was more one of those lift your hands to heaven and cry "Why, god, oh why?" ejaculations than a real question. I know the reasons for groff's reputation. And I know a thing or two about combatting it. It's called mom. :) -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
