From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:41:44 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] roff In-Reply-To: <20170226193349.GA24397@mcvoy.com> References: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <00a701d29053$e13f40f0$a3bdc2d0$@ronnatalie.com> <20170226172011.GC21831@yeono.kjorling.se> <20170226193349.GA24397@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: Heirloom roff, as maintained at https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-doctools, started with the code released as part of OpenSolaris and added UTF-8 support, support for various key bits added by groff, and then support for various modern "smartfont" features, as well as the ability to use modern font files directly rather than having to jump through various hoops. The whole package is much lighter than groff while also having more (useful) features and not having --very-long-options-like-this Mike On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:39:54PM -0500, Michael Kerpan wrote: >> Personally, I'd like to see something using the Heirloom Tools userspace. >> Heirloom *roff, in particular, is miles ahead of GNU (especially when >> dealing with fonts) while also being much lighter weight. > > What's better about the old roff? The new roff has some pic enhancements > that I like. I suspect the old roff includes grap, be nice to have that.