Aw: Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

[carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost]

"Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost> wrote:

> The real original Troff in its modern UTF-8 using form would probably be
> a much better alternative (and it's probably smaller too):
> 
>        http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html

This is a abandoned 32 bit only version which has many unfixed bugs.
The maintained 64 bit version can be found at

     http://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html

> (it does not appear there is a pkgsrc/textproc/heirloom-doctools yet
> though)

Is there anyone interested in creating a package?

Nevertheless also heirloom troff is better suited as a package and
not as part of the base system.  mandoc(1) is IMHO the suited roff
tool for the base today.

Carsten