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Old 9th November 2008
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
You are asking very complex questions. Have you used Troff (Groff)? Have you used TeX or at least LaTeX? Even if do not have high typographic requirements you will see that Troff is not very flexible. If you need new macros or even unusual spacing that is major thing in Troff. In TeX is almost trivial. Troff has almost nonhuman syntax comparing to TeX (which is almost nonhuman for most humans).
I have never used Troff (or any others in the roff family). I have used TeX/LaTeX a little bit in my exploring various typesetting solutions, but didn't get that far as I started to concentrate at the time into musical typesetting - for which I use Lilypond (which itself could be greatly improved).

Is the roff family capable of any typesetting task presented to it - or is it just the syntax is so unnatural that it is hard to learn?
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