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Does anyone have much experience using roff rather than TeX? I feel like I have to install heaps of stuff to get anything done in TeX, LaTeX, or any of the *Te

Does anyone have much experience using roff rather than TeX? I feel like I have to install heaps of stuff to get anything done in TeX, LaTeX, or any of the *TeX, and it feels like a wobbly tower that collapses with minimal provocation. roff seems dead but I was encouraged to recently stumble upon this package of roff macros which makes me think roff deserves another look, especially for my simple needs. http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-01.html http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-01.html

i_feel_great 11y ago
Groff is definitely easier to use. For really simple stuff, just the standard macro packages me, mm and ms are absolutely fine. And they compile faster - much faster than pdflatex. The mom package is very good, but a bit more complex. I gave up on it a few years ago after having trouble building it on NetBSD, and it looked like it was abandoned. But that link shows Peter Schaffter is still maintaining it. Might have to look up my old groff_mom files and have another go. And it looks like it comes with the standard Ubuntu installs. See man groff_mom.