Novellas with Groff

(movq.de)

29 points | by dverlaeckt80 1 hour ago

3 comments

  • dofm 28 minutes ago
    I typeset some university work in troff in 1994. The professor I submitted it to was impressed but questioned my sanity in front of half of the class. Not wrong to do so.

    Might still have the source code to that work somewhere. And it probably still parses.

    Can't remember why I did it but on reflection it might simply have been that LaTeX was not going to fit on my extremely space-constrained Linux machine.

  • jmclnx 1 hour ago
    FWIW, to use ^H for bold print, set this:

        export GROFF_NO_SGR="Y"
    
    or

        setenv GROFF_NO_SGR "Y"
    
    depending upon your shell. Useful for old printers like I have :)
  • TeaVMFan 35 minutes ago
    I applaud all human-based writing tools. 10 days for 40k words is very impressive!

    I suspect many people will prefer HTML for markup. That's why I built EPublish, which is related but for an HTML -> EPub workflow:

    https://frequal.com/epublish/