Re: [Groff] Replacing groff with troff?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Charlie,

> All they're doing is putting mdocml in base to handle manpages.

    http://mdocml.bsd.lv/

    DESCRIPTION

    mdocml is a suite of tools compiling "-mdoc", the roff macro package
    of choice for BSD manual pages, and "-man", the predominant
    historical package for UNIX manuals. The mission of mdocml is to
    deprecate groff, the GNU roff implementation, for displaying -mdoc
    pages whilst providing token support for -man.

    Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, most of which is C++
    and all of which is GPL. It runs slowly, produces uncertain output,
    and varies in operation from system to system. mdocml strives to fix
    this (respectively small, C, ISC-licensed, fast and regular). 

"uncertain output"?

Cheers,
Ralph.