groff alternative?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:23:32PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> Yes.  But the issue is, why trade one piece of non-BSDL licensed code for
> another non-BSDL licensed piece of code??  What does changing from Groff
> to Solaris Troff actually buy us??  Groff is the standard in Roff.  Even
> people writing books on systems with a native Troff install Groff to get
> a more powerful and easier to use Roff.

Solaris Troff is less capable (it won't handle ncurses' terminfo manpage).

Sun doesn't _use_ troff.  They went to SGML years ago.  Troff on Solaris
is a dead program.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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