Re: [Groff] groff on GNU

[Peter Schaffter]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006, Ted Harding wrote:
> and there is groff -- described as "Document formatting system".
> There also is LaTeX -- described as "Typesetting system".
> 
> I feel groff is a bit slighted by this, since it is as much
> a typesetting system as LaTeX is! I suspect that the groff
> description carries the burden of groff's role in formatting
> man-pages, i.e. supporting Unix-style documentation, which
> masks its true merits as a typesetting system.

Funny you should mention this.  The most common comment I get with
people who are coming to groff for the first time via the mom
macros is: "I didn't know groff could typeset.  I thought it was
just for manpages."

-- 
Peter Schaffter