Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:42:17 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) Message-ID: <82745.1027266137@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:08 CDT." <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com>
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In message <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com>, Bob Willcox writes: >On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: >> >> I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my >> masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers >> still use it in earnest? > >As I understand it, W. Richard Stevens wrote all of his books in troff. >Of course he died a few years back so is no longer using it. But my >guess is that were he still alive today, he'd still be using troff. And until somebody shows me a way to edit DocBook where 8% of my screen estate isn't occupied by the XML tags, I'll probably be using [nt]roff as well. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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