I'm even more primitive. I don't use any nroff macros that I don't
define myself in the source file. But once you have a template, it's
trivial. Anyone who asks me, I send a copy of the source from some
previous miscellaneous internet-draft I've done and then they, if they
want, just like me, can simply leave the framework there are replace
the content of that draft with the draft they want. I have no
problems editing this source with emacs, MS Word, BBEdit, or whatever,
depending what platform I'm on.
Donald
From: Jon Crowcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:22:50 +0000
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>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" typed:
>
> >>No rocket science, but perhaps archaeology.
> >>In the early 1980s, a unix box (68ks, vaxen, et.al.) came
> >>with a multi-volume manuals, including an nroff guide.
> >>In this millennium, not all distros have nroff guides.
>
> >>Who is still using this dino technology anyway?
>
>i use it coz once you have a template, all wp packages are the same
>effort (esp. for standards) - i also have templatex for latex and word
>to do the same thing and have worked with people who use frame - i
>dont understand all this nonsense - they are all equally bad at
>somethings and some better at others - wysiwyg is pretty much
>a) bad for people with rsi
>b) none existent in reality anyhow given the whims of rendering and
>typesetting backend s/w -
>
>actually, groff man pages are not what you need - what you need are
>MACRO manual pages - groff_ms(7) refers you to ms(7) which is
>propietary as far as i know (otherise i'd post it:-)
>
>by the way, "dino" lasted 140M years - 70 times as long as humans so
>far, and 7M times as long as IPv4.....do you have another 20 year old WP
>source file you can still process apart from groff?
>(rhetorical question, dont answer that:-)
>
>
> cheers
>
> jon
>
