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From: ralph at inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:00:41 +0100
Subject: [COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by
	Dennis Ritchie)
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Hi Greg,

> Still, TeX has one significant advantage over [gt]roff that I'm aware
> of: it adjusts paragraphs, not lines, and it seems that in some cases
> this give better looking layout.

Gunnar Ritter's Hierloom troff, a descendent of OpenSolaris's, can
adjust paragraphs rather than lines.
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html

Ali Gholami Rudi's neatroff, a troff re-implementation, adjusts
paragraphs.  Search for `paragraph-at-once' at http://litcave.rudi.ir/
or http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf

There could be others.

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Cheers, Ralph.
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