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

[Blake McBride]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 5:18 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:48:12PM -0600, Blake McBride wrote:
> > 3.  A case for their benefit will have to be made and dispersed.
>
> Well, someone could do what I tried (and failed) to do: make Word
> produce high quality eqn/tbl/pic/troff source as their internal
> format.
>

As I said earlier, I despise Word for many reasons.  I think making Word,
or any proprietary software, do anything as, in the long haul, a waste of
time.



>
> There was such a thing for TeX, can't remember the name, but my
> Dad (very computer not savvy) used it to write a book.  It was
> WYSIWYG but spit out TeX.
>


Probably LyX <https://www.lyx.org/>.  I use it frequently.

Blake McBride
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