From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:22:00 +0200
From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Message-ID: <2021410182.1376266.1407932520506.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140813104336.GA1172@polynum.com>
References: <20140813104336.GA1172@polynum.com>
	<CAOEdRO3jDuB2VcnDXDMSvk=5t-gHB=yv5o8Jp92V7F7daj+EXw@mail.gmail.com>
	<27b6e2da6fd28b4d22d9837e3ef11a2b@9.SQUiSH.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f66bca0-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

> 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.