From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 15:07:03 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 C44C3106564A for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:07:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5AC8FC15 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A37B2.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.55.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o4PF6xSA097547 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:07:00 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4PF73nA071299 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 17:07:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4PF6wLX099679 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 17:07:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201005251507.o4PF6wLX099679@fire.js.berklix.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 24 May 2010 21:17:01 +0200." <20100524191701.GA29256@britannica.bec.de> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 17:06:58 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com 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: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:07:03 -0000 Joerg Sonnenberger 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 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