From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] porting Heirloom troff to plan9
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:00:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7346bded2190906bbf291fce062cf809@yyc.orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d01002081428l6012a960of54dc4d779a254e9@mail.gmail.com>
> Has anyone considered / tried to port the Heiroom version of troff?
> Has anyone any comment about why doing so would be a bad idea?
No sense tossing the baby overboard. But it's worth examining the changes
the Heirloom folks have made to see what would make sense to backport. They've
certainly done some good work that deserves a look at least.
--lyndon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-08 23:00 UTC|newest]
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2010-02-08 22:28 Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-08 23:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) [this message]
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