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From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: a word-processor for UNIX
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Date: 3 Aug 89 00:55:15 GMT
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In article <1126@sas.UUCP> bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes:
>In article <1989Jul28.163816.1527@telotech.uucp> bsa@telotech.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>|Because troff and TeX are optimized for technical books, not for popular ones.

The Davis Medieval Texts and Studies Program has done a score or more
of books on medieval Latin and Greek rhetoric using troff.

Much of the experience generated by this project is included in Kevin
P. Roddy, UNIX Nroff/Troff: A User's Guide (Holt, Rinehart, Winston:
1987).

Roddy's speciality is medieval rhetoric. Mine is Japanese history.
We've both found troff more useful for serious publishing in our
respective fields than highly touted word-processors specifically
oriented to the humanities.