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https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
Currently reading: UNIX Text Processing (1987). All about nroff and troff and other text processing tools. Super interesting!
Jan 15 · 3 weeks ago · 👍 norayr, BBSman · 🎉 1
Recently done 200 years of family genealogy at 162 pages with images.
Groff was easy and looked good and worked on multiple platforms.
🎲 dozens [OP] · Jan 16 at 04:01:
Wow! That sounds awesome. Did you use a lot of tbl and pic to draw trees and tables and stuff?
I looked and done a few trees but with 1500 people it was just to hard to follow.
you can try to use
it is very easy and later with the program 'dot' you can generate the graph.
— image which illustrates usage of dot and output graph.
I did try graphs but it would not fit all and be readable even at poster board size.
I also did not have a printer on hand and I did not want to ask someone else to use an entire pack of paper and ink.
🎲 dozens [OP] · Jan 17 at 16:02:
graphviz is great! difficult in my experience to achieve very precise layout though...