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

[Bakul Shah]

> On Jan 11, 2022, at 3:18 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:48:12PM -0600, Blake McBride wrote:
>> Some things TeX and troff are going to need in
>> order to continue:
>> 
>> 1.  Continue to be maintained
>> 
>> 2.  An effort to make knowledge of them wider will have to occur if they
>> are to continue.
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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.

May be Textures by Blue Sky Research?