Re: [groff] groff and pipes

[John Gardner]

*> Thus its trait of littering non-text files around> on Unix due to the
last line not ending in ASCII LF.*

What do you mean? I've never seen Emacs do this (unless you mean those
lockfile symlinks it creates whilst editing a file).

*> Emacs wasn't either.*

Well, we all know GNU's Not Unix. ;-)

As for TeX: my experiences with it have been short-lived and unpleasant.
The first was a 10-minute attempt to create a *"Hello, world"* document,
but I wound up with a beautifully typeset *"lol, fuck this"* instead. I'm
in absolutely no rush to try it ever again.

Installing TeX on macOS also requires a 3.9 GB download of the full MacTeX
distribution, whereas Groff's source tree doesn't even consume that much
space...


On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 22:00, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> > And can anyone tell me why Donald Knuth did not design TeX this way?
> > This has always puzzled me and is the main reason I rarely use it.
>
> TeX was not developed on Unix.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#History
> To this day it seems a poor fit.
>
> Emacs wasn't either.  Thus its trait of littering non-text files around
> on Unix due to the last line not ending in ASCII LF.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
>