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Re: [Chicken-users] ideas
From: |
Perry E. Metzger |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] ideas |
Date: |
13 Aug 2002 23:12:12 -0400 |
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Peter Keller <address@hidden> writes:
> > troff/nroff has a distinct advantage in general, which is that the
> > same sources cleanly produce plain and formatted text (and now
> > hypertext -- NetBSD has mdoc macros that generate nice html, and there
> > are similar hacks in groff).
>
> Yeah, but I don't know if you can embed images and math equations and stuff
> into nroff. I've literally only seen it for man pages.
equations are done with eqn, a troff preprocessor -- you can do
similarly for images.
> > The problem with troff is it is a bit obscure. :(
>
> That's an understatement. :)
mdoc isn't actually so bad. I find tex/latex equally obscure at times.
But really, none of these solutions are entirely pleasing. :(
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