Re: using groff/troff in producing academic journals

[James K. Lowden]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:31:51 +1000 (AEST)
Damian McGuckin <damianm@esi.com.au> wrote:

> 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. 

Grist for the mill, the Association of Computing Machinery recently
opened its archive of papers, 1950-2000.  Many of them were doubtless
written in troff.  

https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/april/50-years-backfile

--jkl