On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, at 00:55, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Gerard Lally wrote: > > > Well the sample is meaningless; I searched for a "desktop publishing" > > image and chose that one at random as a reasonably complex example of > > what I had in mind. Good typography is one of the reasons I am hoping to > > standardize on *roff. It's going to be a lifetime commitment for me. I > > can see its value with regard to normal document formatting, but I was > > curious to know whether it could be pushed to handle more complex DTP, > > brochure and business card layouts. > > I first started using Troff in 1978. Maybe Doug wants to comment on his > use over time. > > I have used it for primarily technical papers, reports, invoices, > purchase > orders, and letters for nearly 40 years. I do not use a separate DTP tool > although I am an engineer who does research and who writes reports and > bills people for time+materials. > > I have most certainly have used it for our business cards which do use a > (separately purchased) Adobe font. I have also used groff for brochures > although its use in that role has been saldly limited by my own (lack of) > artistic flair. I, like numerous people in the past, am using it for two > books I am writing. Heaps of people around the world would have used it > for theses.
I anticipate *roff satisfying 95% of my needs Damian: articles, letters, reports, technical papers. It's great to hear from you people who have been using it "from the dawn of creation"! ;-)
