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Comment by ๐Ÿ uyasga

Re: "speaking of groff"

In: u/dozens

I looked and done a few trees but with 1500 people it was just to hard to follow.

๐Ÿ uyasga

Jan 16 ยท 3 weeks ago

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๐Ÿ™ norayr ยท Jan 17 at 02:11:

you can try to use

โ€” graph description language.

it is very easy and later with the program 'dot' you can generate the graph.

โ€” image which illustrates usage of dot and output graph.

๐Ÿ uyasga ยท Jan 17 at 03:05:

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.

๐ŸŽฒ dozens [OP] ยท Jan 17 at 16:02:

graphviz is great! difficult in my experience to achieve very precise layout though...

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๐ŸŽฒ dozens

speaking of groff โ€” Currently reading: UNIX Text Processing (1987). All about nroff and troff and other text processing tools. Super interesting!

๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 comments ยท 2 likes ยท Jan 15 ยท 3 weeks ago