Re: Groff

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2015-06-04 12:44, Robert Swindells wrote:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> wrote:
> > On 2015-06-04 09:43, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > > > On Jun 3, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just in case you don't know, nearly any user has libxml2 and libxslt
> > > > installed anyway.
> > >
> > > None of my systems do.
> >
> > I thought Aleksej was joking... The suggestion to get rid of groff
> > because it needed C++, and replace it with XML, a full blown web
> > browser, and god know how many libraries seemed like the ultimate joke.
> >
> > What happened to the original roff? I mean, groff is just a gnu
> > replacement for roff. Maybe switch back to the original?
>
> The sources to all of DWB are available from AT&T:
>
> <http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/download/>
>
> It needs a bit of work to get it to build on NetBSD though.

Hmm. What about roff from 2.11BSD? That shouldn't be so hard to get 
building on NetBSD...

	Johnny