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In message <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com>, Bob Willcox writes:
>On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
>> 
>> I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my
>> masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers
>> still use it in earnest?
>
>As I understand it, W. Richard Stevens wrote all of his books in troff.
>Of course he died a few years back so is no longer using it. But my
>guess is that were he still alive today, he'd still be using troff.

And until somebody shows me a way to edit DocBook where 8% of my screen
estate isn't occupied by the XML tags, I'll probably be using [nt]roff
as well.

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