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Re: [Groff] *roff for desktop publishing - is it feasible?
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Damian McGuckin |
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Re: [Groff] *roff for desktop publishing - is it feasible? |
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Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:04:32 +1100 (AEDT) |
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Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Robert Thorsby wrote:
Groff works very close to the metal so, in broad terms, it can do anything
because you are not fettered by unavoidable "presets". In fact, although
groff has many presets and default values that are designed to make life
easier for the user, they can all be overridden or worked around.
Many people use it with a macro package and never get too close to the
metal. Raw groff code. I like to avoid it.
I have used Groff with macros as the engine which accounting packages have
exploited to programming create quite impressive invoices. Occassionally
we create custom Postscript templates which we then exploit behind groff
although groff is agnostic as far as they are concerned except in terms of
grabbing the Postscript and (effectively) putting it into the output
stream.
Regards - Damian
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