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Article #2079Re: Groff
From: Rich Stevens
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 15:53
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 15:53
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In article <1990Nov14.094039.11153@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk writes: > >I'm not sure that groff is really ready for that kind of use yet. It is. groff-0.6 is an *impressive* package. I've found it far more reliable than DWB 2.0. The few discrepancies that I have found have been responded to and fixed by the author within 24 hours. I have run hundreds of complicated pages through it (mainly pic and gtroff; very little eqn). I use it with -ms, so I don't know about the problems with -mm. groff has most of the new features from DWB 3.1 (shaded boxes in pic, variable line width in pic, etc...) plus some features that I don't think are in DWB 3.1 (kerning, far better hyphenation, etc.). It did take me about a day to bring it up (along with all the necessary tools (g++, gcc, bison, etc.) on a SPARC running SunOS 4.1. The downside is that I now have to learn C++ to modify it :-) Rich Stevens
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!rstevens From: rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Groff Summary: it is ready for "real" use Message-ID: <1990Nov14.155354.2204@noao.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 15:53:54 GMT References: <28619@shamash.cdc.com> <10354@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Nov14.094039.11153@robobar.co.uk> Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ Lines: 20