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From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 18:04:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180727010412.GJ9644@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180724100041.9B2B0214E0@orac.inputplus.co.uk>

Wasn't the Hierloom troff Jeorg's work?  Did Gunnar take over?

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:00:41AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
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2018-07-23 16:41       ` [COFF] [TUHS] Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie crossd
2018-07-24  3:52         ` [COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie) grog
2018-07-24  4:01           ` lm
2018-07-24 14:43             ` cym224
2018-07-24 10:00           ` ralph
2018-07-27  1:04             ` lm [this message]
2018-07-25 21:24           ` perry
2018-07-26  4:22             ` grog
2018-07-26  6:38               ` bakul
2018-07-26 12:22               ` perry
2018-07-27  1:28                 ` grog
2018-07-27  2:52                   ` cym224

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