RE: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

[Ted Harding]

On 24-Jun-06 Larry Kollar wrote:
> I stumbled across this today, and didn't see anything about it in the  
> archives.
> 
> http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
> 
> "The Heirloom Documentation Tools package provides troff, nroff, and  
> related utilities.... They are portable and enhanced versions of the  
> utilities released by Sun as part of OpenSolaris, which are a variant  
> of ditroff, which, in turn, descends to the historical Unix troff  
> that generated output for the C/A/T phototypesetter."
> 
> There might be something worth cherry-picking. :-)

Fascinating, Larry! There are some interesting things illustrated
in the PDFs on the site -- see e.g.

  http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/troffdemo.pdf

  http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/fonts.pdf

Thanks.
Ted.

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