[TUHS] troff.org and the old bell-labs.com domain

[Larry McVoy via TUHS]

I think that LaTex won because of marketing.  I'm a huge troff fan, the
BitKeeper logo was done in troff, I've done a lot of good things in troff,
I modernized the -ms macros to look better and they did.

All that said, my nerd son has gone all in on LaTex and he makes stuff
look good.  I think LaTex won, I'm not happy about it but it is what it
is.

I fully support anything that makes troff better.

Back when my first son was born, 2019, I was program committee chair for
Linux Expo, which was not a big deal, it meant that I formatted all the
papers into a book.  I tried to get people to do troff, only a few did, 
but they said "holy shit, it's so fast".  I think LaTex does multiple
passes so they can do a table of contents, troff was faster.

But even though I had some sucess at pushing people to troff, it was
not the winner.  I wish it was.

On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 12:07:39AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy via TUHS wrote:
> Hi Lyndon,
> 
> > Does anyone know if Ralph is still maintaining that page?
> 
> Yes, I'm not dead yet.  I'll reply more off-list.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Ralph.

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Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat