From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 13488 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2022 01:59:16 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jan 2022 01:59:16 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id AD5D19C194; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:59:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A76E9C0CA; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:59:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7CF1F9C0CA; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:59:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2049A9C0BE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:59:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924A628034; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DCFCD2635C0; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:59:01 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:59:01 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Blake McBride Message-ID: <20220111015901.GE25103@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20211231234039.GU31637@mcvoy.com> <20220101005605.GL75481@eureka.lemis.com> <20220101031511.GB8135@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FFoLq8A0u+X9iRU8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [TUHS] Demise of TeX and groff (was: roff(7)) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list , Douglas McIlroy Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --FFoLq8A0u+X9iRU8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 10 January 2022 at 13:00:15 -0600, Blake McBride wrote: > I like that groff and TeX are rock solid and well supported. In fact, I > wrote a report generator for a modern web development framework using > troff. I use it to develop reports on a routine basis. (kissweb.org) > Sadly, however, if word of their existence doesn't get out there, I see > them both disappearing in not much longer than a generation. This would be > sad indeed. As long as man pages are formatted with ?roff, I don't see it going away. I don't suppose many people use troff any more, but there are enough of us, and as long as man pages stay the way they are, I don't think we're in any danger. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --FFoLq8A0u+X9iRU8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmHc5GUACgkQIubykFB6QiOchgCeKNUrBIRD1yCK6KStiq2LFZu5 +/QAoJZC/eEOkLe5tLda2HRpbm27TjBf =ERSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FFoLq8A0u+X9iRU8--