[TUHS] roff(7)

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sat Jan 1 13:06:49 AEST 2022


How does groff fair?

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 05:17:19PM -0800, Chris Torek wrote:
> I actually strongly prefer TeX/LaTeX to *roff.  But LaTeX does have
> its Knuthian and Stanfordish peculiarities.  It helps if you read
> The TeXbook first and understand Tex's macro weirdness and \catcodes.
> 
> Both systems have their blind spots.  Ditroff fixes most of the
> big ones in nroff/troff, of course...
> 
> Chris

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