Looking at R to draw some math graphs,
just to find myself in Python's data science again.
and yes, it comes with its own environment
I've stumbled across R markdown,
reluctant to install bloated LaTeX again,
but appeared to be an even bigger bloat
without any useful documentation to find.
Still missing LaTeX
with its sovereign elegance, still
In need of a based PDF compiler,
to automatically resolve
what needs to be done,
without having to arduously 'self-engineer' the .doc
and it shows
Microsoft /Libre office
glad having found roff (groff)
and to my pleasant surprise
came already installed together with the base-devel package of arch
which by far simplest syntax
giving that wonderful feel of editing a PDF document
directly in real time
or 'seeing what you will get',
with a single prompt on the CLI.
$ groff -ms magic.ms -T pdf > magic.pdf