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From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:22:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2021410182.1376266.1407932520506.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140813104336.GA1172@polynum.com>

> Does anyone know if there has been any effort to use TeX and al. for the
> system typesetting i.e. the manpages and docs? (Translation of the troff
> macros to TeX ones etc.---not to mention that for TeX (kerTeX), it needs
> to be converted for utf-8 input; that's on my TODO list but I need to
> finish the rewrite of the T1 lib for dvips(1) first, and the display for
> METAFONT.)

Is this really necessary for the system documentation?  AFAIK P9 nroff/troff
can handle utf-8.  If there are problems with *roff they should be solved.
*roff is a Bell Labs documentation system--it should be used for P9--IMO.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-13 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1209878384.1371392.1407919054269.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net>
2014-08-13  9:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2014-08-13 10:30   ` cam
2014-08-13 10:43     ` tlaronde
2014-08-13 12:22     ` Carsten Kunze [this message]
2014-08-13 13:36       ` tlaronde
2014-08-13 10:57 Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 11:34 ` Rudolf Sykora
2014-08-13 12:16 ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 13:13   ` Rudolf Sykora
2014-08-13 13:46     ` tlaronde
2014-08-13 13:31   ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 18:11 ` Steve Simon
2014-08-13 18:47   ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 19:37     ` Steve Simon
2014-08-13 20:09       ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-14  6:53         ` Steve Simon
2014-08-14 15:01           ` erik quanstrom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-12 15:41 Carsten Kunze
2014-08-12 20:46 ` Steve Simon
2014-08-12 21:02   ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-12 21:08     ` Steve Simon
2014-08-13  7:56 ` Rudolf Sykora

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