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From: bjal_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Ben Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: "nroff" equivalent for TeX ?????
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Date: 22 Feb 91 21:50:28 GMT
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heft@husc9.harvard.edu (Thomas W. Heft) writes:

>I would like to find a program that would be the TeX equivalent of
>"nroff".  I don't want a DVI previewer, since I want the input to the
>program to be the same as the input to the TeX program.

>I am looking for this program so that I can write documentation that
>can be read online, and also printed out.  If I can't find a suitable
>program, I will be forced to use "troff" for my documentation, which
>I'd rather not do.

I also would be interested in such a beast.  I'm also interested in any
useful information about texinfo, ie how to write documentation using
it.  As a side note to that, a friend of mine had problems printing out
the gnu emacs manual but I didn't know any more than he did.  I presume
that all you need to do is have an \input{texinfo.tex} in the file and
have texinfo.tex accesible.  We got massive error messages; are there
different versions of texinfo?

I've only spent a small amount of time with TeX and I've only used LaTeX
on documents given to me.  When I've pulled interesting macro packages
written and posted to the net, I've noticed a severe lack of usefull
documentation or comments in the code.  Query: am I not looking hard
enough, or do I not know how to read tex code?  Do other people find the
macros posted documented adequately?

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Ben Alexander