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Re: [groff] groff and pipes
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [groff] groff and pipes |
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Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:00:30 +0100 |
Hi Steve,
> And can anyone tell me why Donald Knuth did not design TeX this way?
> This has always puzzled me and is the main reason I rarely use it.
TeX was not developed on Unix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#History
To this day it seems a poor fit.
Emacs wasn't either. Thus its trait of littering non-text files around
on Unix due to the last line not ending in ASCII LF.
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Cheers, Ralph.