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

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Thu Jan 13 01:49:58 AEST 2022


On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 06:12:45PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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?

That's it.


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