On Dec 15, 2007 1:25 AM, Michael Kerpan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as "obsolete" > and "only useful for man pages", despite the fact that it can do > everything that TeX/LaTeX (seemingly the favored non-WYSIWYG document > processor) can do but while taking up 3 megabytes (as opposed to the > 300 or so used by the average TeX install) It can't be ease of use, as > *roff plus -me, -mm or -ms is no harder to use than LaTeX or HTML. It > can't be availability as the *roff family is basically a required > component of any Unix-like system. It can't even be font support, > given that it's MUCH easier to install and use random PostScript fonts > in groff than in TeX... What gives and how can we fix it? > > at least, groff/troff without CTAN like things and the proper ability to handle CJK characters through latex-cjk or xetex methods in latex.