I'm even more primitive. I don't use any nroff macros that I don't
define myself in the source file. But once you have a template, it's
trivial. Anyone who asks me, I send a copy of the source from some
previous miscellaneous internet-draft I've done and then they, if they
want, just like me, can simply leave the framework there are replace
the content of that draft with the draft they want. I have no
problems editing this source with emacs, MS Word, BBEdit, or whatever,
depending what platform I'm on.
Donald
From: Jon Crowcroft <J(_dot_)Crowcroft(_at_)cs(_dot_)ucl(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
To: "Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rms46(_at_)VLSM(_dot_)ORG>
cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:34:56 +0700."
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:22:50 +0000
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In message <3AB07EB0(_dot_)8E8C2EB3(_at_)vlsm(_dot_)org>, "Rahmat M.
Samik-Ibrahim" typed:
No rocket science, but perhaps archaeology.
In the early 1980s, a unix box (68ks, vaxen, et.al.) came
with a multi-volume manuals, including an nroff guide.
In this millennium, not all distros have nroff guides.
Who is still using this dino technology anyway?
i use it coz once you have a template, all wp packages are the same
effort (esp. for standards) - i also have templatex for latex and word
to do the same thing and have worked with people who use frame - i
dont understand all this nonsense - they are all equally bad at
somethings and some better at others - wysiwyg is pretty much
a) bad for people with rsi
b) none existent in reality anyhow given the whims of rendering and
typesetting backend s/w -
actually, groff man pages are not what you need - what you need are
MACRO manual pages - groff_ms(7) refers you to ms(7) which is
propietary as far as i know (otherise i'd post it:-)
by the way, "dino" lasted 140M years - 70 times as long as humans so
far, and 7M times as long as IPv4.....do you have another 20 year old WP
source file you can still process apart from groff?
(rhetorical question, dont answer that:-)
cheers
jon