Re: [groff] [Groff] Unintended impact of strip.sed on om.tmac-u?

[Steve Izma]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:10:04AM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Subject: Re: [groff] [Groff] Unintended impact of strip.sed on om.tmac-u?
> 
> I have, admittedly, never processed a document larger than a 600
> page novel.

I have typeset many books of sizes close to 1000 pages (and often
more) that include tables and pic-style graphics, and I find
groff to be remarkably fast.

When adjusting and correcting the output for books this size, I
would normally work on individual chapters (which groff always
handles quickly enough to almost immediately update a pdf-viewer
window). But I also frequently need to run a complete version of
such large books and I doubt that WYSIWYG programs would be
noticeably faster.

My experience leads me to believe that groff with either stripped
or non-stripped macro packages is no impediment to typographical
productivity.

        -- Steve

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