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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:49:22 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   *roff usage (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status  Report (fwd))
Message-ID:  <20020720041922.GA92618@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020718200957.16080B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn>

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On Friday, 19 July 2002 at  1:32:13 +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
> On  Friday, July 19, 2002 1:18 AM, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc.  If I had to guess, asking for
>> nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as
>> I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't
>> have to install a port to get syntax checking.
>
> I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my
> masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers
> still use it in earnest?

Yes, I wrote "The Complete FreeBSD" in it, and I'm still using it in
earnest for a number of things.

Greg
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