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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2017 08:55:56 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        mckusick@mckusick.com
Cc:        bapt@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The futur of the roff toolchain
Message-ID:  <20170524.085556.2040925088868124402.hrs@allbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201705232013.v4NKDhn3066014@chez.mckusick.com>
References:  <20170521125733.bmd4tmq6iqpsbvgl@ivaldir.net> <201705232013.v4NKDhn3066014@chez.mckusick.com>

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Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> wrote
  in <201705232013.v4NKDhn3066014@chez.mckusick.com>:

mc> Thanks for all your work on this project. As I still use roff for
mc> our book and for many of my presentations, it is a topic of interest
mc> to me. That said, I am fine with roff dropping out of base as I can
mc> easily enough bring it in from ports. And I am curious to try using
mc> heirloom doctools on our book to see if it works. We do some pretty
mc> evil things with diversions, so I can easily believe that it will
mc> not work. But it would be great if it does work, because the groff
mc> in base has some bugs that are annoying to work around.

 JFYI, I am working on porting/adjust roff macros used in D&I book to
 make them compatible with heirloom doctools in parallel with the
 translation work because heirloom doctools has better support of
 UTF-8 and pnon-English font set.  The modified MS macro and most of
 other small macros worked with some minor modifications though
 refer(1) in heirloom lacks flexibility in style specification.

-- Hiroki

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