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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: troff and nroff
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:30:38 GMT
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- In article <vcakma4@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>, story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story) writes:
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- - I hope that we are doing a good job prioritizing the needs. If you
- - really consider having DWB for free a top priority over new compilers,
- - graphics, hardware, O/S fixes, etc., please let us know. And please
- - do continue to tell us what you want, in any event. We do listen!
-
- There is awf (the amazingly workable formatter) on many archive sites.
- It is an nroff equivalent written in awk. It is good enough for most
- manual pages, although the newer GNU and X man pages sometimes through up
- some missing macros. Is very easy to install - no compilation required,
- but you need awk to use it. It also uses a lot of processing time (a minute
- or so for a 20 page man page on my 4D/25). It might be useful to have an
- inst'able image, but it is not really necessary. It may also be useful to
- the tar set forr awk on sgi.com - it is ca. 30 kbytes.
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- There is also groff, and that is efficient and a fully acceptable surrogate
- for nroff, but is not small, nor is it easy to build for many people.
- It would be useful to have an inst'able image for groff on sgi.com,
- similar to that for ghost. Maybe some kind soul would oblige ....
-
- Thomas
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