draw a pretty timeline graphic w/ text?

[William Park]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:05:54PM +0000, Peter wrote:
> 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.

When was last time you actually wrote *roff document from scratch?

-- 
William

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