Re: [Groff] *roff for desktop publishing - is it feasible?

[Mike Bianchi]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:37:07PM +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> 
> Some trade journals which are funded by their advertising, often suffer, 
> or loose relevance because all the effort goes into creating the flashy 
> advertisements done by these graphic artists. far less work goes into the 
> content/arrangment/quality/readability/grammar of the articles and they
> loose their readership.

For a counter-example, one that the prizes readability over eye-candy, see The
Economist magazine.  There _is_ eye-candy in the ads, but they do not interfere
with the readability nor the content.


So I have used  [ntg]roff  all these years because I can concentrate on the
content.  The presentation (once I've picked and implemented a style) takes
care of itself.

I even use an nroff filter I wrote in the 1980s on my outgoing e-mail for
exactly that reason.

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