Re: [Groff] It is time to modernise "groff"

[Gour]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 18:02:39 -0400
Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:

> When we were drafting a mission statement for groff in 2014, we all
> agreed that backward compatibility would remain a top priority.
> Troff's very long history stands as a functioning proof-of-concept
> that continued backward compatibility is no impediment to the
> contemporary use of software, no matter its age.    


Here I'd like to ask what has happened in the meantime in regard to the groff's
features and plans stated in the mission statement like Knuth-Plass  algorithmy
for paragraph-based linebreaks, native support for TrueType, Open Type, and
other non-Type1 PostScript fonts, and improving Unicode support ?  

> Groff needs to stick to its guns, if for no other reason than to prove the
> rest of the world wrong in this regard.    

+1 (deep from my heart)


Sincerely,
Gour

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