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Re: "speaking of groff"

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Wow! That sounds awesome. Did you use a lot of tbl and pic to draw trees and tables and stuff?

🎲 dozens [OP]

Jan 16 · 7 months ago

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🐐 uyasga · 2024-01-16 at 14:04:

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

🐙 norayr · 2024-01-17 at 02:11:

you can try to use

— graph description language.

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

— image which illustrates usage of dot and output graph.

🐐 uyasga · 2024-01-17 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.

🎲 dozens [OP] · 2024-01-17 at 16:02:

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

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🎲 dozens

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

💬 6 comments · 2 likes · Jan 15 · 7 months ago