By the way, I am currently forced to use LaTeX. It's because formulas look nicer, and also because my current supervisor asks me to.
I was thinking of writing a program that accepts a file formated with -ms or -me macros and translates it to LaTeX equivalent macros. This way, I would hopefully have the best of both worlds: the elegance of troff syntax and the neatness of TeX output. Is anyone interested in helping me out? Simon. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:24 PM, simon softnet <ph.soft...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have written my bachelor's thesis (80 pages with graphs, tables, > diagrams, equations, etc..) in pure troff -me. > It went as smooth as I could ever hope for. > LaTeX is much more difficult to use, IMO. > > Simon. > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:02 PM, <tlaro...@polynum.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:45:24AM -0800, John Floren wrote: >>> >>> > There was even a bunch of connections last week because somebody was >>> > looking for TeX on phones... (I don't know why, but the community marvel >>> > named TeXlive didn't seem to be the first choice in this case...) >>> > >>> >>> Ah, I think that was due to me... I read >>> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264341 and suggested that they >>> take a look at kerTeX :) >> >> Yes, you were one of the two (the other one has identified himself >> now... ;)). [I suspected this from the initials of the author of the >> mail.] >> >> And for others, BTW, if LaTeX sure works, it's because John was >> brave enough to try and not to give up after initial errors. >> >> Thanks! >> -- >> Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> >> http://www.kergis.com/ >> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C >>
