Re: groff/-mandoc replacement

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Kristaps DÅonsons <kristaps%kth.se@localhost> wrote:
> If anybody's interested in using groff for displaying BSD "mdoc" manual
> pages, I'm actively looking for patches and problem reports for mdocml,
> <http://mdocml.bsd.lv>.  Test!  Patch!
> 
> "mdocml is a suite of tools compiling `mdoc', the roff macro package for
> BSD manual pages. The mission of mdocml is to deprecate groff, the GNU
> roff implementation, for displaying BSD mdoc pages."
> 
> In other words, reliving base BSD systems of groff would be very nice.

There was a very recent conversation about another reason to replace gproff,
which was to avoid C++ so the userland could be compiled with pcc.

Just about the right time. Interesting!

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Best regards,
Mindaugas