troff isn't stagnant (was: Re: TeX/LaTeX are not stagnant!...)

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From: Liam R. E. Quin
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 01:30

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In article <2601@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (D.A.Hosek) writes:
>In article <71781@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Gary Perlman  writes:
>> while systems like troff and TeX, which have a far smaller market,
>>are stangnant.
>
>Actually, TeX and LaTeX are not stagnant

And neither, of course, is troff:
AT&T may have frozen Documenter's WorkBench, but companies such as Image
Networks, Elan and SoftQuad Inc. are continuing development.

Probably SoftQuad have made the most visible changes (all of the vendors
retainiong compatibility with older versions as far as I am aware), but
none of the products are in any way static.

At least two of those companies (Elan and SoftQuad) are on the net.

Lee
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From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: troff isn't stagnant (was: Re: TeX/LaTeX are not stagnant!...)
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.013038.20902@sq.sq.com>
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, technical writing, troff, SoftQuad, sqtroff, xroff
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 89 01:30:38 GMT