Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:30:27 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: groff alternative? Message-ID: <200506172130.36586@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20050617192332.GE13006@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050615054209.L29741@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <42B10804.2010308@mac.com> <20050617192332.GE13006@dragon.NUXI.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 21:23 schrieb David O'Brien: [...] > > This seems to be from src/contrib/groff? > > Yes. But the issue is, why trade one piece of non-BSDL licensed code > for another non-BSDL licensed piece of code?? What does changing from > Groff to Solaris Troff actually buy us?? Groff is the standard in Roff. Groff depends on c++ and is far to big for embedded systems. In fact its bigger than the complete man pages for the OS. (~10MB). That's why I initially posted my question and Lyndon made the OpenSolaris suggestion. I'd like to have a simple possibility to view unformated man pages with reasonable sized tools. Preformatting man pages is not an option for me since packages install unformatted man pages and I don't know a suitable way to change that. -Harry > Even people writing books on systems with a native Troff install Groff > to get a more powerful and easier to use Roff. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCsyTcBylq0S4AzzwRAig8AKCRS1Z9iYRwesL7rk8qqAzF762tugCgkJnJ xQ+n2XNNmZ8UNUHud8I1WXk= =u+ka -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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