On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:57:32PM +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] Typesetting Software
>
> > using 'pdflatex' on the other hand allows to keep
> > everything as pdf. that's nicer.
>
> PDF sucks. It's not programmable, and mostly impossible to
> write and edit by hand.
Not
Hello,
thank you everybody for this very interesting thread!!
as someone who came to groff via it's makro-sets (mom in my case): may i ask
for a short indication on how to accomplish this (or where to find it in TFM):
> > last not least: groff can produce reasonably formatting of ASCII
> > docu
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:55:23AM +0100, John¹ wrote:
> > Subject: [Groff] Typesetting Software
> >
> > Many years ago, when type used to be set by hand, I was one of those who
> > did the typesetting. I am now looking at the methodology of using either
> > Groff or LaTex to produce print
One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: creating
nontrivial tables with tbl+roff is *much* easier than
with LaTeX (in part thanks to tbl's "n" (numeric) format
specifier).
> groff is a single pass formatter, LaTeX is multi-pass.
Not sure what you mean by this, but groff and TeX are
pretty muc
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:55:23AM +0100, John¹ wrote:
> Subject: [Groff] Typesetting Software
>
> Many years ago, when type used to be set by hand, I was one of those who
> did the typesetting. I am now looking at the methodology of using either
> Groff or LaTex to produce print ready text. Can
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, John? wrote:
> Many years ago, when type used to be set by hand, I was one of those who
> did the typesetting.
On the basis of your opening, I suggest, in addition to other
members' comments, that you take a look at the mom macro set for
groff. I'm assuming that, besides se
On Jun 03 2009 (Wed, 8:55), John¹ wrote:
> Many years ago, when type used to be set by hand, I was one of those who
> did the typesetting. I am now looking at the methodology of using either
> Groff or LaTex to produce print ready text. Can anyone briefly tell me if
> Groff does the same job as
On 03-Jun-09 07:55:23, John¹ wrote:
> Many years ago, when type used to be set by hand, I was one of those
> who did the typesetting. I am now looking at the methodology of using
> either Groff or LaTex to produce print ready text. Can anyone briefly
> tell me if Groff does the same job as LaTex?
Many years ago, when type used to be set by hand, I was one of those who
did the typesetting. I am now looking at the methodology of using either
Groff or LaTex to produce print ready text. Can anyone briefly tell me if
Groff does the same job as LaTex?
Obviously there will be a bias in asking
