Doug McIlroy opposes loading groff down with AI
Latest update:
Of course, nobody sane uses groff any longer, except for a couple of
curmudgeonly holdouts.
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:02:19 -0400
From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Subject: Re: Warn on semantic newlines
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVwtA7VFWmPVjejsVOswf9pf=b6XFb2YqFbNogkDaR+5A@mail.gmail.com>
I oppose loading groff down with AI. …
I have enough battles with Word and its imitators trying to outguess
me*, or with Tex throwing a tantrum about paragraphs that it deems
unaesthetic. I am much happier with groff, which in general obediently
does what you tell it to. The big exception is hyphenation, and see
how much mechanism exists to support that one small feature and how
many info screens are needed to describe it.
…
Doug
* Truth be told, some of the idiocy is fun to complain about. My
all-time favorite is Open Office inferring that my name, M. Douglas
McIlroy, is the beginning of a numbered paragraph and carrying on to
number the following paragraphs MI, MII, MIII, ...
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Authors: ag