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From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 12:43:39 -0400, Jesse Hagewood wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm one of the students participating in Google Summer of Code this summer,
> with FreeBSD as my mentoring organization. I thought I would share my
> project on this mailing list, in case it is of interest to anyone.
> 
> My project this summer is to add features and/or complete the BSD-licensed
> text processing tools mdocml, diff/sdiff/diff3 (ports from OpenBSD) for the
> purpose of deprecating groff and the GNU diff utilities in the FreeBSD
> source tree.
> 
> The first part of my project is to add features and make improvements to
> mdocml. Right now, my goal is to try to implement some text-formatting
> requests that are missing from roff. The missing requests are:
> 
> .ad (adjust margins)
> .na
> .it
> .ns (no-space mode)
> .rs (no-space mode off)
> .ti (temporary indent)
> .ta (tab settings)
> .hy (hyphenation)
> .ne
> .nh
> .ni
> .ps
> 
> I will be spending most of this week implementing them. So far, I have been
> working on .ns and .rs, and will have them successfully working probably by
> the end of the day.
> 
> If you'd like to learn more, here is the project's wiki page:
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/JesseHagewood
> 
> SVN repo:
> https://socsvn.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2012/jhagewood/
> 
> Also, any questions/comments/criticisms would be greatly appreciated!

Great! Please keep me in the loop wrt. mdocml as I still hope to get it
in the tree pre-10.x and set fire to groff.

Thanks
Uli