30 Nov
2014
30 Nov
'14
8:53 p.m.
On Nov 30, 2014 6:10 PM, "Jacob Ritorto" <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
wrote:
Yeah, but troff is too hard. I need something at least like emacs. Or
preferably like wordstar. Guess I need to check out this LEX-11.
Hm, that's an interesting statement. Troff is much like LaTeX: a markup
language for formatting. Emacs is an editor that doesn't give a wet slap
about formatting beyond basic line structure. I use Emacs to write and
LaTeX to produce layout.
But neither Emacs (originally EMACS, "eight megabytes and continuously
swapping") nor LaTeX is ever going to run on a PDP-11. I'm not familiar
with LEX-11, but why not get a PDP-8 and run WPS-8? :-)
Just what is it you're trying to accomplish? The phrase "I need something
like..." leads me to think you have a particular goal in mind, and if we
knew what that was it might help us offer suggestions. Cheers -- Ian