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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 ยท 8 months ago ยท ๐ norayr, BBSman ยท ๐ 1
๐ 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.
๐ฒ 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?
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ฒ dozens [OP] ยท 2024-01-17 at 16:02:
graphviz is great! difficult in my experience to achieve very precise layout though...