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From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage (was Re: what i
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Date: 4 Aug 89 02:43:56 GMT
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In article <77900017@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Re:  Troff is great; look at all the books written in troff.
>
>I believe a revolution is coming, and troff will be the first against
>the wall (to be sacrificed).

>(300+ dpi) resolution.  Face it, troff is an elephant, which deserves
>respect, a gold watch, and retirement very soon.
>
>Troff is also missing some formatting niceties, such as the ability to
>wrap text around a picture, or lay out pages like PageMaker or other
>page layout programs.

At least some of the thing you are looking for can in fact be found in
recent incarnations of troff such as that from Soft Quad Publishing
and Mortice Kern Systems.

Troff has an edge in more than mathematics.  Try doing a legal paper
where footnotes range up to several continuous pages.  Try setting up
a text so you can switch from single to multi-column presentation
(with footnotes) in no more than one line of changed code.