If you like the cleanliness and simplicity of troff files for writing
papers, and would like to avoid the hideousness of TeX, then you might
want to try Lout. I ported it to Plan 9 earlier this year and just
copied it to my contrib: contrib/akumar/lout.tgz
Best of luck,
ak
On Sep 12, 2010, at 2:25, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 September 2010 00:18, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote:
That sounds about right, unfortunately.
You might be better off just using TeX.
It's better at math, it runs on Plan 9,
and your colleagues who don't use
Plan 9 will still be able to collaborate
on documents with you.
Russ
Thanks for the answer.
I've actually used TeX and LaTeX for more than 15 years. LaTeX is de
facto standard for physics journals.
But for private work LaTeX is a no-way for me --- plain TeX is much
simpler without illegible complex macros.
When acquianted with troff, tbl, eqn, grap, pic, I started to like
their simplicity, smallness. And basically I can do almost all my work
with them.
Ok. I will have to think. Maybe TeX really is the right choice for
me now.
But, generally. If troff in plan9 is to be a serious tool in the
future, the procedure must be simplified, I believe. I think that
plan9 troff should be able to use (read metrics) from otf/t1/ttf fonts
(like the Heirloom troff can).
Thank you
Ruda
