Re: using groff/troff in producing academic journals

[Damian McGuckin]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Well my papers are copyright sun, sgi, google, bitmover, and there has 
> been enough time passed that nobody cares any more.

Journals have a long memory unfortunately. I think Elsevier are looking to 
waive copyright on their 40 year old papers and prior so you can see their 
thinking.  That almost predates PDF.

We take the attitude that customer related stuff is forever confidential.

> I'm an MS.  Dabbled slightly in MM, didn't see the point given that I knew
> MS, tried ME for a year and it was like the year I tried emacs, went back
> to MS and vi.

Luckily, eqn is independent of macro package.

Stay safe - Damian

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