<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The next NYC*BUG meeting will be streamed <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.38);">on Dec. 2nd</a> via zoom. We will meet at our usual date & time; the first Wednesday of the month <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.38);">at 18:45</a> for gathering & announcements with the talk scheduled to <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.38);">start at 19:00EST</a>. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">James K. Lowden will present "For the Love of Troff", a discussion of the state of Unix</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">documentation and documentation systems.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.399999618530273px;">James advocates the obvious superiority of mdoc markup for documentation, and demonstrates the continuing miserable state of competing systems and formats. If you are not impressed, you're sure to be startled.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.399999618530273px;">To prepare for the assault talk, you may wish to read his unsubmitted, unpublished, nearly secret paper of the same name,</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.399999618530273px;"><a href="http://www.schemamania.org/troff/for-the-love-of-troff.pdf" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">http://www.schemamania.org/troff/for-the-love-of-troff.pdf</a> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.399999618530273px;">For an example of the capabilites of the modern GNU troff system (groff), please see his paper on a completely unrelated subject,</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.399999618530273px;"><a href="http://www.schemamania.org/sailing/vectors.pdf" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">http://www.schemamania.org/sailing/vectors.pdf</a></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">More info: </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10678" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10678</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Stay safe everyone and please wear a mask. </div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></body></html>