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Article #3367Re: Why troff?
From: colonel
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1987 03:39
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1987 03:39
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> The other side of this is people who can't stand TeX because it insists
> on being interactive, blithering at them given the slightest excuse.
> Whether one prefers this to troff's silence and relatively poor error
> diagnosis is very much a matter of taste.
I'm accustomed to troff's barfocity by now. But there's one check
that could be implemented easily and would save a lot of distress.
Strings and macros share a name space, right? Well, if you define
xy as a string and then try to use it as a macro, troff ought to know
better! Hack hack!
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Legalize insanity!
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Why troff? Message-ID: <2193@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 22:39:33 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2193 Posted: Mon Feb 2 22:39:33 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Feb-87 22:44:46 EST References: <1556@trwrb.UUCP> <7593@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments Lines: 19 Keywords: TeX, troff