groff alternative?

Lyndon Nerenberg lyndon at orthanc.ca
Mon May 2 14:44:24 PDT 2005


--On 2005-4-30 6:00 AM +1000 Peter Jeremy 
<PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:

> I don't believe the nroff in either 4.3BSD or 2.11BSD can support long
> names and neither include a mdoc(7) implementation.  4.4BSD includes
> mdoc(7) but also GNU groff - though a quick look at the tmac.mdoc*
> files suggests that it might work with an old (4.3 or 2.11) nroff.

When the Solaris 10 source is released there will be an up-to-date 
alternative to groff. I'm planning to switch over to the Solaris troff 
ASAP. I've already started fixing mdoc to work with ditroff on another 
Solaris 10 box.

--lyndon


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