GSoC: BSD text tools

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 25 May 2010 at 16:16:10 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> If you must kick groff out, why not "port" plan9 troff which
> now does unicode, has 27 macro packages including ms, weighs
> in at about 10K lines of C code written by Joe Ossanna, Brian
> Kernighan, Ken Thompson, Jaap Akkerhuis & others, is now open
> source (subject to Lucent Public License), and traces its
> lineage back to Joe Ossanna's original troff?  There is also
> pic, tbl, eqn and grap (for drawing graphs).  Also
> troff2html.  AFAIK plan9 troff doesn't do dvi but I think
> most people can live with that.

This sounds too good to be true.  I'd certainly be in favour of such a
change, *if* it proves feasible.

Greg
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