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Re:Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I) on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:48AM (#35973169)
> Alas, the site that inspired me doesn’t seem to exist anymore, but basically, it was a grad student who was procrastinating as I do and had decided to write their thesis in groff.

I believe the site referenced was a blog post I wrote and submitted here in July. Unfortunately the post's popularity used up the free trial it was hosted on. The post can now be viewed here: https://yockyrr.gitlab.io/jstutter/ with original comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202209

Re:Writing my PhD using groff on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:37AM (#32213892)
Re:Writing my PhD using groff on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:32AM (#32202719)
Surely PDF/A can be created just by passing any PDF through Ghostscript with the right flags such as -dPDFA and -sPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 ?
Re:Writing my PhD using groff on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:08AM (#32202574)
OP here: thanks for the feedback, added padding and correct scale. Should look better now!