On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:23:32AM +0200, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Wed Mar 30 13:09:40 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Coming from a version control background I happen to love the roff requests > > because they have a natural tendency to break things up. When people > > create really long lines and version control them then small changes tend > > to conflict more. > > The problem with the requests is that they don't break the lines where a > person wants them broken -- at end-of-sentence, comma and so on.
I have been using troff since the 1970s and very much like the fact that I can lay out my thoughts in short lines of phrases. Like the this e-mail. .P The markup is sometimes a bit odd-looking, but I have been .B thinking in terms of the .I mm macros for decades now. The fact that I can read my old documents, both formatted and in raw form, is worth a great deal to me. I also like the fact that I can have programs .I generate those portions of my documents that are best expressed as a computational process. .P And RCS/CVS version control of the documents tends to work. .I rdsdiff(1) will show which lines changed and those lines are often specific phrases or thoughts. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
