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

[Ron Swiernik <Ron.Swiernik%burlingtonstores.com@localhost>]

Again this is an enhancement? Can mandoc handle tbl and pic input?

UNIX has had the *roff tool suite for a long time. A text formatter is how they
got support from management to continue work on UNIX. I doubt we would be
talking about UNIX today if it wasn't for the suite.

If you still want this OS to stay relevant to people looking an alternative to M$
you should be hyping the formatting tools that come with it more. They are
very powerful tools for those who want to learn them. I have done documents
ranging from simple letters to forms that my boss said needed a Desktop
Publish Packager to do. And he has been using UNIX as long as I have. He, like
most others, considered them outdated and useless, I find it far easier to remember
a handfull of dot commands than to search through menus and button bars that
change wither every new release of the office tools.

All of my opinions are my own and do not in ANY way reflect those of the company I work for.

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

Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:

> mandoc(1) does not process roff.

Very simplified described it acts somehow like "nroff -mandoc ..." or "troff -mandoc ...".
There it understands a large subset of the nroff/troff language.
(Only a few useres need real nroff/troff for typesetting other documents than manpages.)

Carsten

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