Re: comp.text Frequently Asked Questions

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From: Bruce Stedman
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:55

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>These troffs are called "ditroff" (for device-independent troff) and
>contain some additional features such as arbitrary line drawing, and
>more flexible font handling.  "Documenter's Workbench" (DWB) is
>a package containing ditroff and several other typesetting filters.
>The latest AT&T version is DWB 3.2, which sold as source code;
>most commercial binary variants (Elan, SoftQuad, Image Network, etc.)
>are based on DWB 2.0.  The Free Software Foundation
>distributes a re-engineered clone of ditroff called groff.

Can someone please tell me how to get in touch with SoftQuad.
Their UK vendor, OpenIT seems to have disappeared, and I can't get any
reply from uucp: utzoo!chp!sq!mail.

Also, does the groff package include MM?

And, how does these commercial packages compare in price to the DWB?

BJS

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From: bj_stedm@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Bruce Stedman)
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Subject: Re: comp.text Frequently Asked Questions
Keywords: typesetting troff groff ditroff dwb
Message-ID: <1992Apr14.165534.21924@csd.brispoly.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:55:34 GMT
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