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!

=> 🎲 dozens

2024-01-15 · 1 year ago · 👍 norayr, BBSman · 🎉 1

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=> 🐐 uyasga · 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.

=> 🎲 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

=> — 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...