On 10/11/2010 10:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
> 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.

TeX, PostScript, HTML, it's all good.

I'm just saying that the finished product looks awful.

The reason I put up with TeX, in spite of its innumerable and obvious 
limitations, is that it produces very, very nice output. troff doesn't 
seem to compare to that.

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

Apparently that's also why all Unix commands fail to offer even the most 
basic feedback as to what's happening, unless something actually goes 
wrong. It's to save paper.

So really, Unix invented environmentalism, 60 years ahead of the rest of 
Western civilisation. :-P

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