Hi Robert, > Your question devolves into, "How long is a piece of string?".
kinda. > It depends on what you intend to do. Like all markup languages *roff is > almost purpose built for incorporating into one's favourite text processing > application -- in my case, shell scripting with much heavy lifting by sed, > awk and friends. i'm really used to perl and shell scripting and troff seems to be a very pleasant new friend to me. > So, if you have a lot of boiler plate text (or boiler plate formatting, for > that matter) you can use native *roff and use your application to do most of > the "macro" work. i actually used generated some documents using m4, sed and tbl and really enjoyed the experience. > On the other hand, you can use just about any macro set to achieve what you > want -- ranging to the old and venerable ms and me to the ultra-modern (in > groff terms) mom. i also tested and was impressed by the short amount of time to render documents that are good enough for my personal usage. > If you are a serious typesetter I recommend you have a stiff > drink before opening the PDF file. i'm not... lgtm :) is there a way to see the sources of it somewhere? regards, marc
