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> not a typesetting system. I like that groff is a typesetting system, it means that I can generate pretty postscript versions of manpages from the command-lin
by cogburnd02 12y ago
> not a typesetting system.
I like that groff is a typesetting system, it means that I can generate pretty postscript versions of manpages from the command-line and print them off, all in one go. It's really handy that way.
- anjbe 12y agoYou can do that with Mandoc too, although the quality of the PDF output is not as nice. What makes Mandoc less of a typesetting system than Groff is that it supports fewer macro sets (mdoc, man, eqn, and tbl, the macro sets commonly used in manpages); Groff supports more (ms, me, mom…) because it’s a more general typesetting system.