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Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available


From: Joerg van den Hoff
Subject: Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:39:05 +0200
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Larry Kollar wrote:
I stumbled across this today, and didn't see anything about it in the archives.

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html

"The Heirloom Documentation Tools package provides troff, nroff, and related utilities.... They are portable and enhanced versions of the utilities released by Sun as part of OpenSolaris, which are a variant of ditroff, which, in turn, descends to the historical Unix troff that generated output for the C/A/T phototypesetter."

There might be something worth cherry-picking. :-)

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that's rather interesting! installation is a bit funny: you have to edit `mk.config' and set lots of dirnames manually (no configure) but then `make; make install' (you need a ucb compatibel `install') worked without a single warning (under MacOS, which might be a consequence of the fact that this is very near to FreeBSD anyway)

try out formatting some documents with groff and this `suntroff' (for lack of a better name). small interesting differences emerge in the output (not difficult to find but to spare you the time: the standard processing queue for suntroff (and ms macros) would be

cat some_file.trf | tbl | eqn | troff -ms | dpost > output.ps

and there is ptx included: is this a good tool for index generating or can I forget about it (did'nt catch the bottom line of the recent thread)?


thank you
joerg




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