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		nils-m-holm on Dec 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn: Ancient troff sources vs. modern-day groff Troff is great! I started typesetting books in troff, then tried Lout, then LaTeX, and finally came back to troff. It's simple, flexible, predictable, and can typeset formulae, pictures, and tables (via eqn, pic, tbl). I would not want to trade it for anything else!

anthk on Dec 23, 2017 [–]

I would love to learn grap(1). No equation was plotted with the tools from Heirloom.

nils-m-holm on Dec 23, 2017 | [–]

Nice! I didn't know about grap!

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