Is there any advantage over LaTeX (besides faster compile times, which really don't matter)? I feel guilty for not using Groff because it's already installed on my system, but I can't find a use case. For documents that are too complex I use LaTeX, for simpler documents, markdown. Is there any use case in which Groff is better than the alternatives?
If you don't like the verbosity of LaTeX it might make a lot of sense. I like Groff just because it's simpler. It seems saner to me and for my personal usecases. I know the K&R C book was written in Troff. But really, it doesn't matter what you use since you just need to use what works for you.
Ignoring my previous comment: I have troubles with hyperlinks in groff. I can't find information on how to integrate them in my text. Should I use groff_www instead of ms? Do you know anything about it?
Thanks! The deepfakes get more and more sophisticated Luke!
Is there any advantage over LaTeX (besides faster compile times, which really don't matter)?
I feel guilty for not using Groff because it's already installed on my system, but I can't find a use case. For documents that are too complex I use LaTeX, for simpler documents, markdown. Is there any use case in which Groff is better than the alternatives?
If you don't like the verbosity of LaTeX it might make a lot of sense. I like Groff just because it's simpler. It seems saner to me and for my personal usecases. I know the K&R C book was written in Troff.
But really, it doesn't matter what you use since you just need to use what works for you.
See a mock up CV in the link below to see what GROFF is capable of:
github.com/Pepe8/GROFF_CV/blob/main/groff_cv.pdf
I can imagine it working really well with M4 macros in your pipeline 🤔
Ignoring my previous comment: I have troubles with hyperlinks in groff. I can't find information on how to integrate them in my text. Should I use groff_www instead of ms? Do you know anything about it?
I know that "mom" macros have ".PDF_WWW_LINK" for links, but I'm not sure about "ms" macros.
Take a look at the pdfmark macro (URL and PDF LINKS) are taken care of there.
GROFF is power!
Isn't it called heading? A header is at the top margin of the page.