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Recently done 200 years of family genealogy at 162 pages with images.
Groff was easy and looked good and worked on multiple platforms.
Jan 15 · 11 months ago
🎲 dozens [OP] · 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?
🐐 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
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...
speaking of groff — Currently reading: UNIX Text Processing (1987). All about nroff and troff and other text processing tools. Super interesting!