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Article #2303Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees?
From: Alvin Chia-Hua Shih
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:13
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:13
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In <1992Oct12.112817.3127@julian.uwo.ca> creider@taptet.sscl.uwo.ca (Chet A. Creider) writes: >In article <1992Oct11.170038.18756@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes: >>Alas, the system I'm on doesn't have groff. It'll be a while before I get >>around to installing it. Indeed, if I have to install a package myself, >>I might look at TeX some more (since it's free and has the tbl stuff?). >> >I don't understand the last sentence: > (1) groff is also free. > (2) TeX does not have 'the tbl stuff'. Oops! I somehow thought that groff was just the troff-equivalent formatter without the tools. I'm now aware that I'm mistaken. > (3) IMHO working with tables in tbl is preferable by far to > working with them in LaTeX or (especially)(plain) TeX. Friends of mine have used LaTeX tables and they didn't seem too traumatized. :-) However, can you suggest where I might find something like "grap"? >Chet Creider <creider@csd.uwo.ca> Thanks. ACS -- ___ ___ ___ ______________________________________________________________ | | | __| Democracy is not a way of getting better solutions. | | - | --|__ | It's just a way to spread the blame. | |_|_|___|___|______________________________________________________________| Alvin_C._Shih____________________acs@csri.utoronto.ca______________________|
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!csri.toronto.edu!acs Newsgroups: comp.text From: acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) Subject: Re: Rotating troff 90 degrees? Message-ID: <1992Oct13.231351.7960@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> References: <4232@vidiot.UUCP> <JJC.92Oct9114032@jclark.jclark.com> <1992Oct11.170038.18756@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Oct12.112817.3127@julian.uwo.ca> Date: 14 Oct 92 03:13:51 GMT Lines: 30