Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:29:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: replacement for nroff (was Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!") Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0307020833540.15194-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <200307021042.h62Aggig032205@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Mark Murray wrote: > You'd lose the ability to read man pages. This is not low-impact. I have been trying old awf and cawf. cawf is a C version of Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter by Vic Abell. I have built it under NetBSD. It supports various nroff and -man, -me and -ms, but it needs various additions to its macros. For example, it needs: .It Pa -- it wants lowercase .it .Xr .Sh -- it wants .SH .Nm .Dt -- it wants .DT .Dd .Nd -- it wants .ND .Op Fl .Bl The 4.10 version I have been looking at is from http://www.tux.org/pub/sites/vic.cc.purdue.edu/ You can find man pages for cawf via google. http://minix1.bio.umass.edu/pub/minix.2.0/2.0.0/wwwman/man1/nroff.1.html Also look at http://www.moon-soft.com/program/C/C2/C-43/CAWF407/00DIFFS Is anyone interested in helping with improving this? Also I read that some old freeware versions of nroff are available (probably for old MSDOS). Does anyone have any URLs for these? Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/
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