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Re: [xml-dev] XML to troff still at work
- From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:00:21 -0400
On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 12:03 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> O'Reilly's old systems were largely DocBook and troff, so this
> triggeredÂ
> some memories:
>
> https://rkrishnan.org/posts/2016-03-07-how-is-gopl-typeset.html
>
> Brian Kernighan, still fighting the devil he knows.
Yes, a lot of fun.
Unfortunate, too, that we've lost a whole bunch of good ideas in moving
from troff to TeX and to Web (even though we gained a whole bunch of
new good ideas in the process).
Liam
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