[Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I *am* "skilled hands" in that sense, having done successful
> full-length technical books in all three markups.  Speaking from
> that experience, I rate groff better than TeX but inferior to a good
> DocBook toolchain (with the exception that TeX wins over both if you
> have to do really intensive mathematical typesetting).

Mhmm.  I have yet to see a DocBook output which looks decent (in the
sense of good typography) without postprocessing.  Maybe I've seen
only bad examples so far -- can you point me to something?

> > > (And brace yourselves for the *real* political bunfight, which
> > > is when I try to kill off GNU info...)
> >
> > You could have an ally ... !
>
> Next year :-).

Hehe.  What's your main argument against texinfo?


    Werner