Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:54:35 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC: BSD text tools Message-ID: <20100526065435.GE11076@dereel.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20100525231611.C88115B30@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <AANLkTik90k1HlsDJsIgRhCnAcU8_ympR15ZJcoL07A5m@mail.gmail.com> <201005251450.o4PEo9tF099503@fire.js.berklix.net> <AANLkTikz2m7LS0DC4i7tKFSHQIyZuCKSxiHWlyTHClhs@mail.gmail.com> <4BFC004F.1090101@elischer.org> <4BFC00E7.1060307@feral.com> <AANLkTik6VBPCSiL4QlHpa5Tbt8PxlYnx2US5FkRGIHkl@mail.gmail.com> <20100525231611.C88115B30@mail.bitblocks.com>
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--VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 25 May 2010 at 16:16:10 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > If you must kick groff out, why not "port" plan9 troff which > now does unicode, has 27 macro packages including ms, weighs > in at about 10K lines of C code written by Joe Ossanna, Brian > Kernighan, Ken Thompson, Jaap Akkerhuis & others, is now open > source (subject to Lucent Public License), and traces its > lineage back to Joe Ossanna's original troff? There is also > pic, tbl, eqn and grap (for drawing graphs). Also > troff2html. AFAIK plan9 troff doesn't do dvi but I think > most people can live with that. This sounds too good to be true. I'd certainly be in favour of such a change, *if* it proves feasible. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/signed-mail.php for more details. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkv8xasACgkQIubykFB6QiNWcACeOrCW6rqtQQhluISkCk9TjUpv cU8Ani4BfGE6B3lKUYJCiDslAowSc/My =DEC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn--
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