>To: groff@gnu.org >Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:06:29 +0000 >From: Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> > >I read _The TeXbook_ and returned to troff. The input language of troff >is superior for mark-up that doesn't clutter the prose, e.g. often small
Nobody I know of uses raw tex nowadays. I'd advise against reading The TeXbook. For people who just want to get their standard technical/scientific documents prepared I'd suggest recent books on latex by Kopka and Daly, Goossens, Mittelbach, Rahtz, Grätzer, etc. I claim it is a lot quicker, for a first year Mech Eng UG student, who was force fed MS stuff only, prior to coming to us, to make a standard lab report in latex than in groff. By standard, I mean: sections, tables, figures, bibliography and cross-referencing for all of these. I'm not saying anything against groff at all. My point is that IMO modern latex is the easiest route for new users to prepare standard technical documents. The authors need know nothing about raw tex at all. Anton
