From: Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden@yandex.com>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: GNU troff/groff is looking for a maintainer
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:40:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150108104054.foGT3RTt%sdaoden@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150107232929.GO23950@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> wrote:
|I just saw, on the groff homepage:
|
|"GNU troff is looking for a maintainer. If youb
I don't understand this joke, shall it be meant as one. troff is
a program with history and still of use. I use it to typeset my
letters, for example. I'm absolutely sure there will never appear
any animated advertisments when it does that. And i hope i will
get my S-roff going, which is a clone of GNU troff starting at the
last GPL2 commit, and extend it over the years. I'm stuck with
creating mdocmx(7) since November, a reference extension of
mdoc(7) that is really great to use, but adds even more delays.
Regarding GNU troff: i personally will not sign that GNU
petitition. And as far as i know that is what prevents Ingo from
putting more effort into GNU troff, too. Carsten Kunze has forked
Heirloom troff and has worked quite a bit on it, too.
It would be a pity if NetBSD would remove a working troff from
their codebase.
--steffen
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-07 23:29 Thomas Klausner
2015-01-08 10:40 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2015-01-08 10:45 ` Paul Thomas Melville
2015-01-08 11:53 ` Ingo Schwarze
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