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From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally   unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:34:08 +0100
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On 24 Sep 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote
(in article <vct2hp$2tic0$12@dont-email.me>):

> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:24:43 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:
>
> > David Brown<david.brown@hesbynett.no> schrieb:
> >
> > > To me, the answer is just to use LaTeX.
> >
> > Not always possible if you're working in a company.
>
> There´s always troff/groff. Remember that the Unix folks at Bell Labs got
> the initial funding for their project on the basis of producing a high-
> quality typesetting system. That system still lives on today.
>
> Anybody producing large amounts of high-quality, complex textual material
> (e.g. technical documentation) is inevitably going to have to move beyond
> WYSIWYG tools and adopt some kind of markup system.

Nope.

-- 
Bill Findlay