Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-17 Thread Michael Witten
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Larry Kollar wrote: > For most of what Author-It does, we could have done it a lot cheaper and with > much higher performance by deploying a CVS server on the network and using > groff. Is the suggestion to use `CVS server' as an alternative just a particularly

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Peter Schaffter wrote: > It does no good to emphasize the universal portability of groff > documents, for reasons I know too well: if the publisher I send > a work of fiction to is a Wordie--they all are--I have no choice > but to provide them with MSWord documents. Not that traditional publishe

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-14 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, May 14, 2012, Charlie Kester wrote: > On 05/13/2012 10:53 PM, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > > Let's face it: filtering a groff document through sed or awk so > > it becomes acceptable rtf, readable by MSWord, is not for the > > inexperienced. > > I've never had occasion to put it to the test

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-14 Thread Charlie Kester
On 05/13/2012 10:53 PM, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Let's face it: filtering a groff document through sed or awk so > it becomes acceptable rtf, readable by MSWord, is not for the > inexperienced. I've never had occasion to put it to the test, but does Paul DuBois's troff2rtf meet this requirement?

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Witten
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Let's face it: filtering a groff document through sed or > awk so it becomes acceptable rtf, readable by MSWord, is > not for the inexperienced. This sounds like a fault of the groff [eco]system.

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-13 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, May 12, 2012, Steve Izma wrote: > James Lowden sent me, off list, this link to an article he wrote > about the relevance of groff to fundamental concepts of > programming and computer use. I assume he's too modest to > broadcast it, but I think it's excellent: Great article, as others have

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-13 Thread Anton Shepelev
Steve Izma > James Lowden sent me, off list, this link to an > article he wrote about the relevance of groff to > fundamental concepts of programming and computer > use. I assume he's too modest to broadcast it, > but I think it's excellent: > [...] My thanks to James and to you, Steve

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-13 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:11:00PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote: > James Lowden sent me, off list, this link to an article he wrote > about the relevance of groff to fundamental concepts of > programming and computer use. I assume he's too modest to > broadcast it, but I think it's excellent: > >

Re: [Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-12 Thread Clarke Echols
On 05/12/2012 11:11 AM, Steve Izma wrote: James Lowden sent me, off list, this link to an article he wrote about the relevance of groff to fundamental concepts of programming and computer use. I assume he's too modest to broadcast it, but I think it's excellent:

[Groff] Groff and computer education

2012-05-12 Thread Steve Izma
James Lowden sent me, off list, this link to an article he wrote about the relevance of groff to fundamental concepts of programming and computer use. I assume he's too modest to broadcast it, but I think it's excellent: Apart from all the typo