Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:49:13 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC: BSD text tools Message-ID: <20100525224913.GB11076@dereel.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20100524191701.GA29256@britannica.bec.de> References: <AANLkTik90k1HlsDJsIgRhCnAcU8_ympR15ZJcoL07A5m@mail.gmail.com> <20100524191307.GE216@comcast.net> <20100524191701.GA29256@britannica.bec.de>
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--vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 24 May 2010 at 21:17:01 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: > >> Is the thinking that groff has only been in base to support manpages? >> If so, this project makes sense. But even so, some clarification of the >> intent is needed. > > The use of (g)roff for anything but man pages is practically > non-existent. I wrote two books in it. It's good for typesetting. It's pretty much useless for man pages. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/signed-mail.php for more details. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkv8U+kACgkQIubykFB6QiON4wCfWfHVbnRiJ0Z1CK8Zr/uW2Wum WFEAnA4rtkyYlbWNfRo1C2EZ/P8JNkkD =XzAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko--
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