[TUHS] TeX and groff (was: roff(7))
Adam Thornton
athornton at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 12:26:21 AEST 2022
Knuth made an excellent point, maybe in _Coders At Work_ about literate
programming and why it didn't catch on: in general, about 1 out of 20
people can be a really good programmer. In general, one of 20 people can
be a really good writer. These talents are largely uncorrelated.
Sure, being competent at either is a teachable skill. But no one wants to
read either a program or a narrative written by someone who's merely OK at
it.
Adam
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM David Arnold <davida at pobox.com> wrote:
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> > 2. Drop DVI? Are you kidding me? Although PDF may be popular now,
>> > that may not be the case 20 years from now. A device-independent
>> > format is what is needed, and that's what DVI is. TeX is guaranteed
>> > to produce the exact same output 100 years from now.
>>
>> And .PDF isn't?
>>
>
> No. It isn't. It is an Adobe product.
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> Check out ISO 32000-2:2020.
>
> I think it’s ok in 2022 to say that PDF has escaped Adobe and is an open
> standard, suitable for long-life documents, etc.
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