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In article <326@rocksanne.UUCP>, lee@rocksanne.UUCP (Lee Moore) writes:
> At some time in the distant past I'd seen references to a "Berkeley version"
> of ditroff.  Is this real, or was this a bad pointer?  If it is real, what
> is this "Berkeley version" and how would I get it?

A few years back, the UC Berkeley Computer Science dep't distributed tapes
of a modified ditroff package, which included gremlin (a Mac-like graphics
editor that ran on Suns and other graphics devices), and dsun/dsuntool (a
ditroff previewer for the Sun workstation).  Gremlin required extensions to
troff involving polygon fill, and the fallout from that was that all the
device filters needed changing as well.

My advice is, don't do it.  Since this troff is non-standard you're stuck
with maintaining an odd version forever.  Gremlin has a rather mediocre user
interface; I prefer fig from U Texas, even though fig doesn't do shading and
polygon fill.  But dsun/dsuntool is great if you have a Sun workstation, and
could even be modified for another workstation.

Bill