Perhaps we should use troff and just convert it to tex? Because I also hate to write/read tex.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Rudolf Sykora<rudolf.syk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/8 Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com>: >> I assume you have a non-Plan 9 machine to play with. >> It's worth trying Heirloom troff there to see if the boxes >> are done better. They probably are. > > as far as I see, they are not better. > >> I need to fall back to the Plan 9 troff, because the low-level >> details seem to differ between the two. > > so, unlike TeX, different troffs produce different outputs, right? > >> Honestly the box drawing has never really bothered me. >> I don't draw boxes around things because it's too noisy >> for my tastes anyway. > > it's not only boxes; it's tables, as I mentioned, as well. > > Thanks > Ruda > >
