On Tuesday 18 Oct 2005 12:44, D. E. Evans wrote: > > > We had a discussion on this list a few months ago, that if anyone had > > done a WYSIWYG front-end for groff years ago, it would be more viable for > > the masses. Sigh. > > > Like all UNIX tools, the specialized ones are the most viable. I > lament the day groff goes gui. However, I think that a seperate > gui frontend is not a bad idea. >
I am not persuaded a gui would improve groff adoption (has LyX helped LaTex?). The power of groff, as a typesetting program, is in its speed and scaleability. It quite happily gobbles up a 7GB '.trf' file producing 900,000+ pages of coloured postscript in under 4 hours (always impresses me!!). Cheers Deri _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
