Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 17:06:58 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC: BSD text tools Message-ID: <201005251507.o4PF6wLX099679@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 24 May 2010 21:17:01 %2B0200." <20100524191701.GA29256@britannica.bec.de>
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Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote: > The use of (g)roff for anything but man pages is practically non-existent. False. Its a production tool used here. http://berklix.com./associates/ http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/#card ( Try .PS card back X3 size All business letters, bills, business cards, ID cards, cdrom labels here use groff. There's guys recently wrote me from Germany developing groff macros for .de iso standard business letters to the new standard. Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> wrote > Yes, I understand that troff-style typesetting has mostly been abandoned > in favor of WYSIWYG editing. My patches for FreeBSD groff, ghostview etc, with wysiwyg published on the web & running fine for maybe 10 years. Share & enjoy. Each time I hit :w in my xterm editing [groff], the adjacent ghostview (or chimera) redisplays http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/wysiwyg.shar.asc Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML quoted-printable Base64 http://www.asciiribbon.org
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