Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 08:00:58 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX problems; Doc. Proj. needs you! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811080754420.1770-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <19981108100712.V499@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > I did some playing around with this a couple of years ago. At that > time, it was possible to convert the sgml stuff into either TeX or > *roff source. I tried both routes to PostScript, and found the > appearance of the *roff-derived version to be superior. There's > something about stuff which has been formatted with TeX which shouts > "look at me, I've been formatted with TeX". > > In addition to that, I consider TeX to be a piece of *(&$*. This is > not lack of experience: I used TeX for years before being forcibly > converted to *roff. If there's any interest in going the *roff path, > count me in. *roff seems a great deal more efficient to me too. The problem is that Jade doesn't currently spit it out as a backend. Making Jade do that is something James Clark has on his wishlist, but isn't done yet. :( Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> | If only I could learn Japanese and get my Servant of Karen Behrens | hands on all 200 Sailor Moon episodes and Engineer, Nameless IRC Network | all the movies, I think my life would I eat Penguins for breakfast. | finally be complete. . . . . . . . . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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