Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:52:46 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@FreeBSD.org> To: Jesse Hagewood <jesse.hagewood@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SoC project: Complete BSD-licensed text processing tools. Message-ID: <20120530185246.GK10094@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <CACfFK-VDL8XVo-W5m-6fh-NL-CtfjkXO9bffsz3Po9y03A3jbg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACfFK-VDL8XVo-W5m-6fh-NL-CtfjkXO9bffsz3Po9y03A3jbg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 12:43:39 -0400, Jesse Hagewood wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm one of the students participating in Google Summer of Code this summer, > with FreeBSD as my mentoring organization. I thought I would share my > project on this mailing list, in case it is of interest to anyone. > > My project this summer is to add features and/or complete the BSD-licensed > text processing tools mdocml, diff/sdiff/diff3 (ports from OpenBSD) for the > purpose of deprecating groff and the GNU diff utilities in the FreeBSD > source tree. > > The first part of my project is to add features and make improvements to > mdocml. Right now, my goal is to try to implement some text-formatting > requests that are missing from roff. The missing requests are: > > .ad (adjust margins) > .na > .it > .ns (no-space mode) > .rs (no-space mode off) > .ti (temporary indent) > .ta (tab settings) > .hy (hyphenation) > .ne > .nh > .ni > .ps > > I will be spending most of this week implementing them. So far, I have been > working on .ns and .rs, and will have them successfully working probably by > the end of the day. > > If you'd like to learn more, here is the project's wiki page: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/JesseHagewood > > SVN repo: > https://socsvn.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2012/jhagewood/ > > Also, any questions/comments/criticisms would be greatly appreciated! Great! Please keep me in the loop wrt. mdocml as I still hope to get it in the tree pre-10.x and set fire to groff. Thanks Uli
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