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>But it still doesn't answer the question.  If the DTD and the
>replacement rules are up to snuff, it doesn't matter whether we go to
>TeX, troff, Scribe, or who knows what.

Sure it does. I need to install and maintain it locally, and even with
packages and ports I don't want to have to keep a copy of TeX "live"
just to generate documentation. TeX and I just don't get along... 

Plus troff code run through nroff looks pretty good. Much better than
the straight "plain text" output of Linuxdoc.