From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 4 20:58:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA21767 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA21756 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.204]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14764; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:57:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03337; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:57:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:57:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: John Fieber cc: Sean Kelly , peter@taronga.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I write this SGML stuff? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------