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speaking of groff

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

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

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Jan 15 ยท 8 months ago ยท ๐Ÿ‘ norayr, BBSman ยท ๐ŸŽ‰ 1

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๐Ÿ uyasga ยท 2024-01-15 at 23:00:

Recently done 200 years of family genealogy at 162 pages with images.

Groff was easy and looked good and worked on multiple platforms.

๐ŸŽฒ dozens [OP] ยท 2024-01-16 at 04:01:

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

๐Ÿ uyasga ยท 2024-01-16 at 14:04:

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

๐Ÿ™ norayr ยท 2024-01-17 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 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.

๐ŸŽฒ dozens [OP] ยท 2024-01-17 at 16:02:

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