Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:57:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>, peter@taronga.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I write this SGML stuff? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960604235626.26610S-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960604221234.422X-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, John Fieber wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > > > Another judgement call. 11 point CM roman works quite well for me at > > 300 dpi whereas Adobe Times Roman at the same size doesn't. So, score > > remains unchanged. > > Well, I think both times and CM are ugly, and BTW, how can I make > groff use New Century Schoolbook? (Yes, LaTeX uses it just fine) Use .fam N \" change font family to New Century Schoolbook Try looking in /usr/share/groff/groff_font for others. The first letter is the font family. > > Anyway, in the context of an sgml based document processing > system, troff or TeX plays the role of as(1) in a C based > programming environment. Its there, its plays a critical role > but you rarely ever encounter it directly. If I had to choose > between troff or TeX for direct use, I would take TeX without a > second thought. But freebsd docs, I think troff is a much better > choice because (a) its standard equipment (b) is much easier to > hide behind a shell script and (c) can actually generate decent > ascii output. > > The *only* reason sgmlfmt generates LaTeX right now is that the > [nt]roff output is hopelessly brain dammaged and I confess I > don't know enough to fix it. Unfortunately those who do don't > know enough SGML to do it either. :( > > -john > > == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== > == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================ > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------help
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