Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:08:52AM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> On Friday 11 June 2004 08:58, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> [...]
> > I think if you're not willing to learn LaTeX or troff commands you
> > don't have many options besides OpenOffice.org. I personally like
> > groff much more than LaTeX because I had trouble finding good docs
> > when I wanted to so something more than the available LaTeX classes
> > and packages let you do. The groff docs are excellent.
>
> I hadn't even considered it -- I was intimidated by roff back in the
> eighties when I first met unix. I'll look at that with interest.
As I understand it the basic commands haven't changed much. In fact I
have learned it from the original Troff User's Manual by Ossana and
Kernighan (available at http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html).
Regards
Matthias
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