Re: groff/ditroff compatibility

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From: Wolf Paul
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1989 10:17

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In article <JJC.89Sep7135705@jclark.UUCP> jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes:
 >I now have two separate versions of groff: one that supports TeX dvi
 >and PostScript formats and one that supports ditroff output format.
 > ...
 >My main problem with ditroff compatibility is the font metric format.
 >The binary ditroff font format is rather inflexible and lacks
 >important information; in particular, there's no pairwise kerning
 >information.  I can't live with that. So I have made groff read the
 >ascii ditroff font format, but with a few (completely optional)
 >extensions. ...
 
Fantastic! And where, pray, can one obtain groff? Even a beta version would
be great to fiddle with :-).

Wolf
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From: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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Subject: Re: groff/ditroff compatibility
Summary: What about groff availability??
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Date: 9 Sep 89 10:17:34 GMT
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