You're not bold it's a fair question.
I've worked with LaTeX a lot and also with Word, besides Groff.
Groff outshines the alternatives by far in my humble opinion.
Why?
For me the ability to create pictures, graphs and tables all text based is
a big advantage.
Almost all my exams (being a science
On Do 07 Dez 2023 at 21:35, Mike <898...@smartsprout.co.uk> wrote:
> I was thinking of a website or web page which demonstrates the extent
> of groff's capabilities.
>
> If there isn't anything like this, currently. Has this been considered?
>
> I have only just learned of groff. The manual is awe
Le 2023-12-07 à 22:35, Mike a écrit :
I was thinking of a website or web page which demonstrates the extent
of groff's capabilities.
If there isn't anything like this, currently. Has this been considered?
I have only just learned of groff. The manual is awesome (though tough
reading for me in p
Hi folks,
I have a *roff language reform to suggest.
I propose that GNU troff stop behaving like AT&T troff in one aspect of
end-of-input macro processing, documented in our Texinfo manual.
-- Request: .em macro
Set a trap at the end of input. MACRO is executed after the last
line of
On Fri, Dec 08, 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I propose that GNU troff stop behaving like AT&T troff in one aspect of
> end-of-input macro processing, documented in our Texinfo manual.
I'm all for it, for all the reasons given.
--
Peter Schaffter
https://www.schaffter.ca
[self-follow-up]
Some clarifications, to our Texinfo manual and to my own remarks...
At 2023-12-08T15:34:28-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The '\c' in the above example needs explanation. For historical
> reasons (and for compatibility with AT&T 'troff'), the end macro
> exits
At 2023-12-08T14:00:30+1100, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> > (And one of these days I'd like to support cube roots and subscripts
> > and superscripts on the left side of symbols. I'd like to bring
> > eqn's capabilities closer to those of TeX. I hate typing in all
> > those backslashes.)
>
> You just
