GSoC: BSD text tools

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 24 May 2010 at 21:17:01 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
>
>> Is the thinking that groff has only been in base to support manpages?
>> If so, this project makes sense.  But even so, some clarification of the
>> intent is needed.
>
> The use of (g)roff for anything but man pages is practically
> non-existent.

I wrote two books in it.  It's good for typesetting.  It's pretty much
useless for man pages.

Greg
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