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+1 on speed and memory.. Some table and figure heavy documents I've done have had internal memory overruns on latex. A lot of my forays into programming starte
by Surio 14y ago
+1 on speed and memory.. Some table and figure heavy documents I've done have had internal memory overruns on latex.
A lot of my forays into programming started with the Bell Labs books (with troff | pic | eqn ...) prominently on the copyright page. So, it was one of the first things I looked up when I got access to a UNIX terminal. Then I discovered that all the UNIX books by Stevens were done up with troff/groff. From there, it was all "steadily downhill" for me ;-)
P.S: If you already know (La/Con)TeX then groff is literally a walk in the park. And it is always good to know more than one way to do things imho. Good luck with it.
- fusiongyro 14y agoMy knowledge of ConTeXt is pretty limited, but unlike LaTeX you don't need to be an expert to get good looking results. I find ConTeXt a lot more intuitive. I got a book on TeX coming soon because I want to get better at ConTeXt. ConTeXt is not shy about telling you that for better results you need to understand TeX and use it appropriately. I find it kind of absurd that I've been using TeX for so many years without actually understanding it. I have been curious about roff since trying to use Plan 9, but in a pretty absent-minded way. They're quite unashamed of providing roff at the expense of TeX, and I believe all of its documentation is roff-formatted, including the technical reports, but I could be mistaken about that.