Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:24:51PM +0100, Gerard Lally wrote:
> 
> As someone who uses groff as a lightweight alternative to TeX and
> friends**

FWIW, I have developed a minimal TeX system: kerTeX
(http://www.kergis.com/kertex.html) (french; english at
http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html).

A minimal install can be as small as 8MB. The default (with the AMS
fonts, e-TeX, dvips, MetaPost, bibtex and the Adobe standard PostScript
fonts metrics) is less than 40MB.

The advantage of the TeX system is that it is self-sufficient : it
includes fonts and the mean to design them.

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