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In article <tlm.718249912@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Dr. T.L. Marchioro II) writes:
>Sadly, there's little to do about it now (except complain, which we're all
>quite good at :-) but perhaps I can offer a better solution to Louis' original
>question --- i.e. a solution with pagenumbering, headers, etc. which runs on 
>any NeXT --- which at least "calms the waters" on one aspect of this 
>question.  Why not have everyone put their documentation in troff??  I
>just checked and troff seems to be fully installed on both my 105 Mb internal
>(I keep a skeleton system in case of "big disc failure") and my external
>whcih has the extended OS.  I'm no big troff fan, would have difficulty
>writing a letter in it to be honest, but often get documents in it from
>collaborators and can obey the instructiosn necessary to view and/or
>print it.  Associated figures/screen grabs could be in EPS files numbered
>1, 2, 3, .....  which the reader could view as he/she read through the 
>document.  I would even assume it's trivial to write a shell script 
>that would drive the troff file, and it's figures, to a Postscript (or, 
>better yet for those with the full OS, TeX) document?  
>
>It seems to me this would be a great long term solution since troff comes
>with all Unix systems --- I don't want to pick a fight, but some have
>recently said the NeXT doesn't come with a bundled WP: actually, it comes with
>several, nroff, troff, Edit, TeX, etc. It's just that it doesn't come with
>WriteNow, which has a particularly convenient combination of features, anymore
>--- and there are lots of troff --->> XXXX convertors.  Again, I'm no
>troff expert, but is there any reason it couldn't serve as a standard for
>documentation?  (I agree that TeX and InfoTeX are out because that would
>just be another screw for those with small discs).  


Yuk.  Just use whatever Word/Document processor you want and save it
in PostScript format.  If you want multi-platform compatibility, then
use FrameMaker (which exists on _every_ platform).  FrameMaker is
freely distributable in it's read-only form without the license
string...


andrew
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