Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:49:22 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: *roff usage (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)) Message-ID: <20020720041922.GA92618@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020718200957.16080B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn>
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On Friday, 19 July 2002 at 1:32:13 +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > On Friday, July 19, 2002 1:18 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > >> tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for >> nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as >> I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't >> have to install a port to get syntax checking. > > I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my > masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers > still use it in earnest? Yes, I wrote "The Complete FreeBSD" in it, and I'm still using it in earnest for a number of things. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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