Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > : > Then, a few years ago, I thought of generating groff/tbl input > instead and then calling those tools to generate the final PDF output.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 09:47:49AM +1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: > : > Using shell scripts heavily reliant on awk which are then piped through > groff ... Since the dawn of troff, the idea of _computing_ good-looking documents has been a major strength. The tbl/pic/eqn/... style of tools amplified the utility of such. Those of us who see the words/data of a document as more important than the appearance quickly realized the value of separating the those two concerns. The prevalence of What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get documentation ("... Is All You Get": Brian Kernighan) has hidden the possibilities from the popular mind. It is good to see the idea of computing documents being rediscovered. -- Mike Bianchi