Re: [Groff] The future redux

[Clarke Echols]

On 02/25/2014 11:59 PM, Volker Wolfram wrote:
> Hi all groffers,
>
> in fact I'm a newbie on groff tools and macros. But these tools are the BEST 
> I've used EVER. I enjoy groff so much, I've developed my
> own three side perspective CAD macro to made my needs. And a macro for 
> electrical and pipe scheme. And there so much ideas in mind to
> make more with groff and companions.
>
> And as a newbie I don't know about the code and design of groff. But I've 
> changed from LaTeX to groff because it is simple and easy to
> understand. (And not tons of binaries and fonts as LaTeX.) And that is very 
> cool.

Back about 1996, I wrote some macros and used "draw" requests in troff
to create the master artwork for manufacturing printed circuit cards.
Worked well.  I haven't taken the time (and don't have the particular
inclination) to write macros for electronic circuit diagrams.

I didn't have access to CAD software back then, but Corel Draw was
adequate for schematics.

groff has incredible flexibility for the imaginative, even far away
from typography.

Clarke