Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?

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From: Rick Richardson
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 02:43

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In article <JJC.89May31220314@jclark.UUCP> jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes:
>I have been implementing a troff which I'm going to give to GNU, and I
>
>So far it has almost all V7 troff features, as well as most ditroff
>It can produce both TeX .dvi and PostScript output,

Remember that it isn't ditroff compatible unless it supports at least
the basic ditroff intermediate format.  SQ made this mistake, and I
hope GNU doesn't, too.  The intermediate format is used by indexers
and postprocessors, is documented, and should be supported.

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Subject: Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?
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