I've written some math papers in troff. I spent less time doing math and more time tinkering with troff, to get things to show up properly. LaTeX looks prettier still, but handling UTF-8 in the source goes a long way towards legibility (especially if you have to come back to it after a while).
I also ported Lout (contrib/akumar/lout.tgz) to Plan 9. It looks even prettier, and the source files end up looking much prettier than LaTeX. However, there is no UTF-8 support. ak On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:42 PM, hugo rivera <uai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I'll reconsider using troff for my thesis, because some math > is sure to come across. But learning more about troff is indeed > useful. > > 2011/12/2 simon softnet <ph.soft...@gmail.com>: >> 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 >>>> >> > > > > -- > Hugo >
