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Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2009 16:53:12 +0200
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] troff and ps related
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2009/7/8 Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>:
> I assume you have a non-Plan 9 machine to play with.
> It's worth trying Heirloom troff there to see if the boxes
> are done better. =A0They probably are.

as far as I see, they are not better.

> I need to fall back to the Plan 9 troff, because the low-level
> details seem to differ between the two.

so, unlike TeX, different troffs produce different outputs, right?

> Honestly the box drawing has never really bothered me.
> I don't draw boxes around things because it's too noisy
> for my tastes anyway.

it's not only boxes; it's tables, as I mentioned, as well.

Thanks
Ruda