roff / tex comparison (was Re: OT: Rant)
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:25:32PM +0000, Ted Harding wrote:
| I'd like to suggest giving 'groff' a try.
| I reckon it's well up with TeX, and better in some respects.
Can you provide a list of the tradeoffs between [gnt]roff and (La)TeX?
I've started with LaTeX; read lshort and now have Lamport's book.
I've barely seen some snippets of roff source. A prof. I have now
(Ken Reek) used a roff clone to typeset all of his handouts. They
look nice too.
I'm interested in knowing the differences and tradeoffs between the
two systems, and how easy/quick is learning roff?
TIA,
-D
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Stay away from a foolish man,
for you will not find knowledge on his lips.
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