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Article #3322Re: Why troff?
From: m5d
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1987 21:23
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1987 21:23
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I here lots of people saying that "troff lets me do ASCII previewing
and that's why I use it." There is a nice easy way to do this
with TeX also, although I must confess that I don't know how -- people
just tell me it's so and then hit me.
I don't have any great complaint about troff. I am certain, however,
that TeX output looks better. It is clear to me that TeX works
much harder than troff at setting paragraphs nicely. In fact, I think
that troff just does line-at-a-time justification (I could be wrong).
In defense of troff, I am currently of the opinion that troff source
files are a little easier to work with than TeX source. All of the
troff commands (well, almost all) are stuck at the left column, while
commands to TeX are everywhere.
Seems like my opinions on this subject are rather weak.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!im4u!ut-sally!ut-ngp!infotel!pollux!bobkat!m5d From: m5d@bobkat.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Why troff? Message-ID: <485@bobkat.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 16:23:20 EST Article-I.D.: bobkat.485 Posted: Tue Jan 27 16:23:20 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Jan-87 00:50:05 EST References: <362@linus.UUCP> <106@tg.UUCP> Reply-To: m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally (dlsh)) Distribution: comp.text Organization: Digital Lynx, Inc; Dallas, TX Lines: 25 Keywords: TeX, troff