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A tex document with no "syntax" embedded also produces reasonable results. For simple projects I do not even write tex code directly. I write in org-mode and e
by torrent-of-ions 10y ago
A tex document with no "syntax" embedded also produces reasonable results.
For simple projects I do not even write tex code directly. I write in org-mode and export. So I wouldn't be opposed to using groff for typesetting if it produced high quality output.
But whenever I'm preparing for publication I always end up manually tweaking many things for latex. There are a lot of things TeX does automatically perfectly well. Typesetting paragraphs is one of them. But overall page layout always requires manual work in my experience. Does groff make this manual work easier?
- kzrdude 10y agoI think that the more markup you have to insert, the value is left in working with latex. It's a big uphill climb until you have a usable template, I guess.
- _red 10y agoAgreed. The benefit of troff system is: (a) If you only need to add minimal markup (occasional .PP .B .I), (b) the fact its everywhere, (c) because of "A", no IDE / Editor needed That is to say, for minimal jobs its great - if you need to extend effort go LaTeX