@steph@fedi.steph.tools LaTeX was already bad enough
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@SuperDicq @steph troff eqn is superior anyway
@bonifartius @SuperDicq @steph I guess if you're psychotic enough to like typesetting in what feels like assembly
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@scathach @steph @SuperDicq plain TeX is assembly as well 
troff and it's preprocessors are top notch design and sorely under-appreciated imo. the preprocessors are bespoke languages for the task at hand vs. TeXs "everything is a nail"
@bonifartius @steph @SuperDicq Idk my main experience with roff has been writing man pages using OpenBSD's semantic macro set and it was thoroughly miserable, in the future I'm going to stick with a generator like scdoc or maybe a custom texinfo backend
@scathach @steph @SuperDicq maybe it's an aquired taste :) i haven't used the mandoc stuff of openbsd, i only know that they reimplemented a subset limited to manpage generation.
