groff alternative?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> --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.

OK, this is off original topic of search for a micro roff, but:..

Old FreeBSD groff allowed
	.PSPIC inch.eps 3.04i 0.2c R
	.\" 7.6c from left, 0.3 width, 1.049i long
	.PSPIC -I 7.6c point.eps 0.3c 1.049i
	.PSPIC inc/vsl_logo.eps 6.8c 0.4c
ie seperate vertical & horizontal scale factors & offsets.
Apparently that full functionality was back in PWB version of some code.

The new FreeBSD  (GNU) groff/ pic/ whatever only seems to allow a
degenerate sub set.  I too will be looking around to personaly dump
this new .PSPIC & find some old roff / pic filter sources whatever,
as soon as I get time to find out what to discard & replace to avoid
this crippled .PSPIC

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