Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!LARS@acc.ARPA From: Lars PoulsenNewsgroups: net.unix Subject: Choosing a Documant Preparation Package Message-ID: <6960@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 18:35:59 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6960 Posted: Thu Jan 3 18:35:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 23:44:48 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 34 I do most of my work in three somewhat distinct environments: - VAX/VMS (Vanilla 3.7) - TWG Eunice (3.2) - 4.2 BSD Unix After a period of trying to use native tools in each environment, I have more or less given up on EDT and I now stick to VI on any system that has it. (Has anybody written a VI emulator for TPU ?) ----- Next, I have to come to terms with text formatters; it looks like I am going to have to live without the real nice ones (which I hear are SCRIBE and TEX) and make do with RUNOFF (DSR) and NROFF/DITROFF. Ideally, I'd like to have a compatible subset; it looks like it oughta be possible to write a DSR emulation in NROFF (provided you stick to the two-letter versions of the commands), but I definitely wouldn't want to build it myself. Has anyone done it ? Our in-house systems support group hacked up a package which I don't happen to like much, and then they say that if you want something else (or more) you should use -ms (or was it -me ?). Not that they'd really support it, of course. Also the inhouse package cannot be loaded together with -me or -ms. What do other people do ? For system managers, how do you overcome the learning/documentation barrier of nroff ? / Lars Poulsen ------