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In article <1991May3.163405.23681@solbourne.com>
	tsmith@solbourne.com (Terry Smith) writes:
>Any Xroff users out there?

The Image Network folks were kind enough to let me eval a copy of
xroff when I was DWB shopping.  I ended up selecting eroff, but I've
got nice things to say about the Image Network people and the xroff
product.

>We're currently using eroff, but want to evaluate Xroff.  It looks like
>any other roff to me, but with a few X-named scripts doing some of the work.
>I don't see any real connection to X Windows other than it has a previewer
>that runs in an xterm.

First, you are right, the Image Network xroff program has no relation
to the X Window Pig(tm).  xroff is their port of DWB.  I tested it
out on a plain vanilla XENIX/386 box.

I like xroff.  It and Elan seemed to be the two most robust DWB's I
looked at.  Xroff also included a nice set of fonts - from DigiFont
I believe.  I'd kill to be able to have a copy of the `Palatino' font
Image Network ships.  The HP Palacio is a poor substitute.  (I'll
leave my story of how the DigiFont sales prevention people kept me
from doing business with them for another time.)

The thing which was a total knock-out punch for xroff is the fact that
the backend is not ditroff compatible - nor was it documented.
Therefore, if you've got any tools for printer handling, fonts, etc.
they are useless.  I needed this capability, and thus xroff was rendered
unusable for my needs.

xroff is similar in capability (and unfortunately price) to Elan eroff.
All the preprocessors (pic, tbl, etc.) are there.  If not for the
proprietary backend, the choice between eroff and xroff would probably
have been a coin flip.  I think I would have ended up picking xroff
because of the fonts.

BTW...why are you looking to drop eroff?

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