# speaking of groff

=> https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/ https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

Currently reading: UNIX Text Processing (1987). All about nroff and troff and other text processing tools. Super interesting!

=> /u/dozens 🎲 dozens
Jan 15 · 6 months ago · 👍 norayr, BBSman · 🎉 1

## 6 Comments ↓

=> /u/uyasga/13956 🐐 uyasga · Jan 15 at 23:00:
Recently done 200 years of family genealogy at 162 pages with images.
Groff was easy and looked good and worked on multiple platforms.

=> /u/dozens/13962 🎲 dozens [OP] · Jan 16 at 04:01:
Wow! That sounds awesome. Did you use a lot of tbl and pic to draw trees and tables and stuff?

=> /u/uyasga/13975 🐐 uyasga · Jan 16 at 14:04:
I looked and done a few trees but with 1500 people it was just to hard to follow.

=> /u/norayr/13996 🐙 norayr · Jan 17 at 02:11:
you can try to use
=> gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view?DOT+(graph+description+language) — graph description language.

it is very easy and later with the program 'dot' you can generate the graph.

=> https://camo.githubusercontent.com/fb5bc7badd77ca2923fd0fe941bc590240ef295b7d5da6439cf1b71a7f75b682/68747470733a2f2f786e2d2d7939617a6573773662752e786e2d2d7939613361712f6d656469612f75706c6f6164732f323032322f30312f31392f34623635306162342d326539372d343566382d386664332d6166316337323633393963302e706e67 — image which illustrates usage of dot and output graph.

=> /u/uyasga/13998 🐐 uyasga · Jan 17 at 03:05:
I did try graphs but it would not fit all and be readable even at poster board size.
I also did not have a printer on hand and I did not want to ask someone else to use an entire pack of paper and ink.

=> /u/dozens/14017 🎲 dozens [OP] · Jan 17 at 16:02:
graphviz is great! difficult in my experience to achieve very precise layout though...