Nice tour of student typesetting today. Not surprising to find roff
still in service too. My thesis in the late 80s was set using nroff,
fig and eqn, all of which I've fond memories.
Surely WYSIWYG and "office" suites were a disaster for writing.
Students seem to spend lost weeks and months fiddling with MS-Word
only to create mediocre looking output.
Personally I's say it's hard to beat Org-mode, separate plain text
files, then adding the desired exporter and style files at the last
minute.
Surely WYSIWYG and "office" suites were a disaster for writing. Students seem to spend lost weeks and months fiddling with MS-Word only to create mediocre looking output.
Personally I's say it's hard to beat Org-mode, separate plain text files, then adding the desired exporter and style files at the last minute.