From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 18:04:12 -0700 Subject: [COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie) In-Reply-To: <20180724100041.9B2B0214E0@orac.inputplus.co.uk> References: <8ECDA62D-1B54-4391-A226-D3E9ABEE4C07@planet.nl> <20180723155552.GB19635@mcvoy.com> <20180724035206.GA87618@eureka.lemis.com> <20180724100041.9B2B0214E0@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: <20180727010412.GJ9644@mcvoy.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm