From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 22:49:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C316A106564A for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 22:49:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from w3.lemis.com (w3.lemis.com [208.86.224.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BED8FC0C for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 22:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dereel.lemis.com (sat-gw-ext.lemis.com [180.181.112.227]) by w3.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEF53BACE for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 22:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dereel.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A2744A1098; Wed, 26 May 2010 08:49:13 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:49:13 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100525224913.GB11076@dereel.lemis.com> References: <20100524191307.GE216@comcast.net> <20100524191701.GA29256@britannica.bec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100524191701.GA29256@britannica.bec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Subject: Re: GSoC: BSD text tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 22:49:29 -0000 --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--