On 2007-03-20, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) `groff' is not ancient at all and still actively maintained (`groff' is > actually more recent than TeX).
The command set and syntax are from the 1950s or something, when you had to to write it all on a punchcard. You can't make heads or tails of it just by looking at the file; you have to look at the documentation. That doesn't lend to random contributors improving the documentation. LaTeX, on the other hand, has commands that are understandable when you look at the document, even if you didn't know how to write a LaTeX document from scratch. Too bad LaTeX documents are hardly understandable by other programs, them being programs themselves. > I think it would'nt harm if one > would not loose this option without better reasons than that the tutorial > would simply not pop up via `man tutorial'. I still think that using such arcane formats as *roff is pointless, unless you're writing a man page. -- Tuomo
