From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 06:54:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1870C106566B for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 06:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from w3.lemis.com (w3.lemis.com [208.86.224.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD5E68FC14 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 06:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dereel.lemis.com (sat-gw-ext.lemis.com [180.181.112.227]) by w3.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35F33BACC; Wed, 26 May 2010 06:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dereel.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D7A02A1098; Wed, 26 May 2010 16:54:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:54:35 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bakul Shah Message-ID: <20100526065435.GE11076@dereel.lemis.com> References: <201005251450.o4PEo9tF099503@fire.js.berklix.net> <4BFC004F.1090101@elischer.org> <4BFC00E7.1060307@feral.com> <20100525231611.C88115B30@mail.bitblocks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100525231611.C88115B30@mail.bitblocks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Eitan Adler , Matthew Jacob , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC: BSD text tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 06:54:41 -0000 --VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/signed-mail.php for more details. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkv8xasACgkQIubykFB6QiNWcACeOrCW6rqtQQhluISkCk9TjUpv cU8Ani4BfGE6B3lKUYJCiDslAowSc/My =DEC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn--