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I use TROFF and friends for layout and Ghostscript for generating PDF. No screwing around with a stupid GUI. :) Once you have a collection of macros set up, it
by nils-m-holm 10y ago
I use TROFF and friends for layout and Ghostscript for generating PDF. No screwing around with a stupid GUI. :)
Once you have a collection of macros set up, it's a natural process and allows you to focus on writing entirely.
YMMV, of course.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoDepending on what you're doing, LaTeX may be a better option. But if troff works for you, I'm not complaining.
- technofiend 10y agoI always thought TeX and friends had much prettier output than roff-family output and my professors always appreciated a TeX formatted paper. But for rapid documentation writing I found roff perfectly acceptable. It worked for Bell Labs, so why not? In fact for a while I actually published my resume in man format after slightly tweaking the an macros. Very few people got the joke and most just asked if I could e-mail a copy in Word format. If a sysadmin / engineer / devops dude showed up today at my door with his resume in -man format I'd think it was cool. The fact that Scrivener is now available on the iPad and Literature and Latte abandoned Linux makes an iPad Pro a tempting platform. But frankly there's nothing wrong with using a unix distribution on a Chromebook or droplet via ssh and roff to author a book from start to finish. And it would be far cheaper than an iPad Pro.