Re: PostScript in mandoc now available.

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <4C23C9F9.6090805%bsd.lv@localhost>,
Kristaps Dzonsons  <kristaps%bsd.lv@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I notice that joerg@ just checked in the build glue for mdocml-1.10.2 in 
>NetBSD.  This is good news.
>
>First, background.  When mandoc (né mdocml) was first mentioned here,
>
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/03/thread1.html#001766
>
>one of the issues raised with missing PostScript functionality.
>
>Under the auspices of Google's SoC, this is no longer the case: the 
>checked-in version has support for PostScript output via -Tps.  This 
>stands alongside the existing outputs of the terminal (-Tascii), HTML 
>(-Thtml), XHTML (-Txhtml), and linting (-Tlint).
>
>At the moment, -Tps produces monospaced, font-styled output. Variable 
>fonts are currently in development (as I work on parsing glyph widths 
>and doing the unicode dance), along with a -Tpdf option to keep pace 
>with -Tps.  PDF support isn't technically part of the GSoC project, but 
>it's related in terms of implementation space.
>
>Anyway, invoking the PostScript driver is easy:
>
>http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?mandoc++NetBSD-current
>
>Please let me know, those of you who make heavy use of the current -Tps 
>option to troff, whether there are any neat functions you'd like used, 
>e.g., the option to output A4 instead of US-letter.
>
>Kristaps "Mischka"
>
>PS, mandoc was also discussed recently on undeadly, which may be of 
>interest:
>
>http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100604082319&mode=expanded&count=19

Good Stuff!

christos