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erpicht

@ erpicht @lemmy.ml

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Amateur typesetting enthusiast.

  • Community Poll: What do you use *roff for?

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  • Yes! I'm no longer at university, so I don't typeset equations or graph data often anymore, but I am a big fan of -mom for typesetting other notes. I especially appreciate its split between "document processing" (semantic meaning) and "typesetting" (visual presentation) macros, which resonated with me due to its similarity to the split between HTML (semantic) & CSS (presentation).

    Do you mean using LibreOffice to view markdown documents with nicer presentation? I never knew LibreOffice could do that! I will admit I have grown to like markdown because I can get my coworkers to use it without too much hassle, but we use it with Wiki.js, not for its own sake.

    I'm glad to hear you settled on using groff with -mom :)

  • Help me understand the workflow for cloning dotfiles after a fresh install without hosting dotfiles in the cloud

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  • I use GNU Stow for mine so the dotfiles I care about are included in my file-level backups. Once I restore my files, I can just run the stow(8) command to create the symbolic links. But, if I just want the dotfiles without the rest of my files, I would use scp(1) to copy the stow directory over to a new system, because it would be simplest. I don't use version control with my stow directory (yet).

  • Which FOSS projects do you financially support and why?

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