Re: using groff/troff in producing academic journals

[Damian McGuckin]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I emailed ralph@inputplus.co.uk who owns troff.org to see if he wanted
> to host papers.  troff.org looks pretty dead so we shall see.  If he is
> still there, that would be a great place to host example papers.

One issue is that most of my papers are either confidential or copyright 
to somebody so will limit what I can post.  I am sure that others might be 
in the same boat. I think a thesis is (shared?) copyright between the 
author and the university. We might need some waffle in the directory to 
cover copyright issues. Most papers are not a single file.

I use MM as a macro package. Is that still relevant to enough people? As 
young Doug reminded me a long time ago, if a macro package does the job 
for you once you learn it, you keep using what you first learnt if. He has 
been an MS person for slightly longer than I have been an MM person.

Most of my papers have equations, both simple and complex although I am 
still learning 'eqn' even though I have used it and troff/groff for many 
decades.

Stay safe - Damian

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