Re: groff/-mandoc replacement

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 06:56:59AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost (Thomas Klausner) writes:
> 
> >On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:20:16PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> >> It lacks a mandoc macroset though.... Mixing in the macros from
> >> Heirloom helps, but I have no idea what the resulting license
> >> would be.
> 
> >The mdoc macros included in groff are BSD licensed.
> >See /usr/share/tmac/mdoc/*
> 
> For some unknown reason it (plan9 nroff) did not understand those
> macros, but the set from Heirloom (almost) worked fine.

The version of mdoc from newer groff requires e.g. support for arbitrary
number of macro arguments. I don't think the plan9 nroff supports that.

Joerg