From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 18:40:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A87816A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:40:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from knight.ixsystems.net (afg.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB9E43D1F for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:40:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from [192.168.1.111] (afg.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.73]) by knight.ixsystems.net (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j5FIHQgs036178; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:17:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Message-ID: <42B0762D.8040202@offmyserver.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:40:45 -0700 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lyndon Nerenberg References: <200504262010.49509@harrymail> <20050429200029.GC232@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <200506141824.17451@harrymail> <20050614185923.GA12375@dragon.NUXI.org> <42AF374F.3000705@offmyserver.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: groff alternative? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:40:42 -0000 Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > >> Would troff/nroff/ps/pdf utilities from Plan 9 be usable? The license >> isn't as restrictive. > > > But probably better than what Sun is using. The Plan 9 troff has the > advantage of being UTF-8 savvy. It has the disadvantage of requiring > the Plan 9 runtime compatibility libraries be brought along. The disadvantages to not having a standard libc :(. Perhaps the ones from Russ Cox's Plan 9 From User Space would be a better start? (A.K.A. plan9port) > I don't have time right this minute to investigate further. Maybe in a > week or two. I know Sascha Wildner (DragonFly syscons extraordinaire, among other things) was interested in porting this in that camp. If you're going to take a look at it, perhaps it would be a good idea to talk to him. I'd be interested in helping as well. --Devon