[TUHS] Recognizing TeX (was: TeX and groff (was: roff(7)))

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Tue Jan 11 11:52:50 AEST 2022


On Monday, 10 January 2022 at 15:37:01 -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
>> It's a double edged sword.  TeX looks better but you instantly know it is
>> TeX, it has a particular look.  Troff looks just fine to me, and you don't
>> know it is Troff, Word, or what.
>
> Less flippantly, I know it's TeX is probably mostly about the fonts.

Agreed.  There's also something about the default layout with overly
large margins.  But I know how to change fonts on groff; my attempts
with TeX were complete failures.

Greg
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