leff@smu (03/30/88)
We are investigating buying one of the many ditroff's for the IBM-PC XT (MS-DOS). We will be using a Series II Laser Jet. Does anybody have experience with any of these packages; are they really compatible with AT&T ditroff on the VAX; Are they not so slow as to be unusable? Anything else we should know. Laurence Leff: Coordinator, Computer Science and Engineering Department Computer Facilities Management Team, 75275-0122, 214-692-2859 Moderator comp.doc.techreports/TRLIST, Symbolic Math List convex!smu!leff leff%smu.uucp@uunet E1AR0002 at SMUVM1 (BITNET)
romwa@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Dornfeld) (04/04/88)
The version of ditroff from ELAN has proven reliable. I have only used the nroff side of things extensively, but the files move right over to our SoftQuad Troff on XENIX where they are output on an Apple Laser Writer. Troff on a PC is going to be slow. I would recommend an AT class machine if you want to get work done quickly. Troff does quite a bit of thrashing around on the harddisk on my PC. ELAN's software even allows inclusion of graphics in the raw file. This is sorely needed in troff. ELAN Computer Group, Inc. 410 Cambridge Ave., Suite A, Palo Alto, CA 94306 415-322-2450 I primarily use SoftQuad Publishing Software on a XENIX 286 box, and have found this product to be fantastic. They have enhanced troff with all kinds of goodies like long macro names (up to 14 characters), debugging facilities, and other neat things. Is XENIX out of the question for you? BTW, they have an agreement with AT&T to handle production of future incarnations of the Doc. Workbench, so it may not be a bad way to go. SoftQuad Inc. 720 Spadina Avenue Toronto, Canada M5S 2T9 416-963-8337 Hope this helps. Mark T. Dornfeld Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queens Park Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 2C6 mark@utgpu!rom - or - romwa@utgpu