Twenty years ago, I used troff to create camera-ready artwork for a
double-sided
printed circuit card for a product I was designing the control
electronics and
bar-graph display for. The product was awarded "Top 20 new automotive
service tools of the year" in Motor Magazine for 1997. (Alas, th
While I didn't look at the sample page, I bethought myself how
one might go about setting up the fairly stereotyped NYT editorial
page. Yes, I could copy the page quite exactly, but that would be
something like hand-setting the lines. How would one handle the
weird column layout of the Letter secti
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Robert Thorsby wrote:
Groff works very close to the metal so, in broad terms, it can do anything
because you are not fettered by unavoidable "presets". In fact, although
groff has many presets and default values that are designed to make life
easier for the user, they can
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Gerard Lally wrote:
Well the sample is meaningless; I searched for a "desktop publishing"
image and chose that one at random as a reasonably complex example of
what I had in mind. Good typography is one of the reasons I am hoping to
standardize on *roff. It's going to be a l
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016, Gerard Lally wrote:
> > Would I consider tackling the illustrated page? No way, my
> > sense of responsible typography forbids it.
>
> Well the sample is meaningless; I searched for a "desktop publishing"
> image and chose that one at random as a reasonably complex example o
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016, Gerard Lally wrote:
> Is it possible to lay out a page, as in the attached sample file,
> using *roff? I'm about to commit myself to learning troff and friends
> more thoroughly. Before I start I'd like to have a broad idea of its
> limitations.
It's all doable with groff. T
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, at 22:40, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> On 24/10/16 08:26:36, Gerard Lally wrote:
> > Well the sample is meaningless; I searched for a "desktop publishing"
> > image and chose that one at random as a reasonably complex example of
> > what I had in mind. Good typography is one of
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, at 21:28, ted.hard...@wlandres.net wrote:
> On 23-Oct-2016 18:52:41 Gerard Lally wrote:
> > Is it possible to lay out a page, as in the attached sample file,
> > using *roff? I'm about to commit myself to learning troff and friends
> > more thoroughly. Before I start I'd like t
On 24/10/16 08:26:36, Gerard Lally wrote:
Well the sample is meaningless; I searched for a "desktop publishing"
image and chose that one at random as a reasonably complex example of
what I had in mind. Good typography is one of the reasons I am hoping
to standardize on *roff. It's going to b
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, at 21:21, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> On 24/10/16 05:52:41, Gerard Lally wrote:
> > Is it possible to lay out a page, as in the attached sample file,
> > using *roff? I'm about to commit myself to learning troff and friends
> > more thoroughly. Before I start I'd like to have a
On 23-Oct-2016 18:52:41 Gerard Lally wrote:
> Is it possible to lay out a page, as in the attached sample file,
> using *roff? I'm about to commit myself to learning troff and friends
> more thoroughly. Before I start I'd like to have a broad idea of its
> limitations.
>
> I don't need a how-to, d
On 24/10/16 05:52:41, Gerard Lally wrote:
Is it possible to lay out a page, as in the attached sample file,
using *roff? I'm about to commit myself to learning troff and friends
more thoroughly. Before I start I'd like to have a broad idea of its
limitations.
I don't need a how-to, detaile
Is it possible to lay out a page, as in the attached sample file,
using *roff? I'm about to commit myself to learning troff and friends
more thoroughly. Before I start I'd like to have a broad idea of its
limitations.
I don't need a how-to, detailed or otherwise, showing the steps you'd
take to pr
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