Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

[hbezemer]

You're not bold it's a fair question.
I've worked with LaTeX a lot and also with Word, besides Groff.
Groff outshines the alternatives by far in my humble opinion.
Why?
For me the ability to create pictures, graphs and tables all text based is 
a big advantage.
Almost all my exams (being a science teacher) are created using Groff.
I have a simple but effective macro which enables me to create two versions at 
once:
One version for students with space (and lines) between the questions to fill 
in their answers.
A second version where the empty lines are replaced with the correct answers and
distribution of points.
Having the questions and answers in one source document is very handy.

Secondly you can pull in any other program you want.
For instance I use Lilypond to create small pieces of sheet music, which are
imported in the document.

The reason why groff is not widely used is (imho) that its greatest strenght is 
also 
its weakness: Being deeply rooted in the (l)unix-philosophy of piping data
through different (small) programs makes it hard to attract windows users.
I'm trying to get Groff running on Windows for my collegues, but this isn't
be far a walk in the park.
Having an overleaf.com kind of solution would be a game changer.

Just my two cents.

Regards,

Hans


Mike <898022@smartsprout.co.uk> wrote:

> > It's not much, but I did some kind of a template for different stuff
> > with groff
> > that you can find here : https://t.karchnu.fr/doc/grofftut.pdf
> > 
> > Not sure it's what you're looking for.
> 
> Thank you Philippe.
> 
> That is an interesting resource, thank you for sharing it with me.
> 
> I was thinking of a website or web page which demonstrates the extent
> of groff's capabilities.
> 
> If there isn't anything like this, currently. Has this been considered?
> 
> I have only just learned of groff. The manual is awesome (though tough
> reading for me in places). groff does so much more than I first
> imagined.
> 
> I don't know if this aligns with the goals of the contributors, but
> examples of some well-designed, finished documents might attract new
> users and potential contributors.
> 
> Forgive me for being bold, I am just thinking out loud.
> 
> Mike