Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Choosing a Documant Preparation Package Message-ID: <4009@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 14:45:56 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4009 Posted: Thu Jan 3 14:45:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:56:56 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 36 From: Lars PoulsenI 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 ------