draw a pretty timeline graphic w/ text?

[Peter]

William Park <opengeometry at ...> writes:
> I don't know why *roff didn't take off.  It could be that paragraphs are
...

Why would you say that? 95% of unix online manpages are *roff source and served
compiled on-the-fly whenever one looks at a man page. The number of installed
systems must be in the double digit millions. I would call that "flying pretty
well", even for a 30+ (?) year old system that was not particularly highly
regarded even by those who made it as far as I can tell.

Just throwing plain text at groff without markup yields stunning results
(hyphenated and all) on account of the sane defaults built into the default
installations. Just for fun try <loret-ipsum.txt groff -Tascii|less . -Tps will
yield the corresponding nicely formatted page. loret is a pretty harsh test
because nothing hyphenates Latin correctly now - or ever? (not that I'd see any
mistakes - my "Latin" knowledge comes from one year or that in school crutched
up by speaking 2 modern Romance languages). And yes groff seems to have made
right guesses at hyphenating even Latin, which is regular etc., but still...
chapeau.

I never did anything serious with PIC but I played with it and I like it very
much for simple flowcharts and diagrams.

-- Peter


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