Invisible wrote:
> I've always thought that manpages and the ugliest, lamest, most archaic 
> thing ever, so I don't see that that's much of an advantage.

Oh, wait. Aren't you the one that goes on about LaTeX and Postscript? :-) 
I'm not sure what you have against a text-based program for generating 
typeset output.

> (On the other hand, today's reading suggests that troff is really 
> designed to control phototypesetters - whatever those are - and not 
> produce stuff on screen...)

Plus, they didn't produce stuff on screen. This is hardcopy land. Screens 
were advanced stuff. :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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