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Re: Groff vs Heirloom troff


From: Marc Chantreux
Subject: Re: Groff vs Heirloom troff
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:33:58 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

hello Ingo,

thanks for this detailed anwser.

> The reason i'm sticking to groff is that groff has been the typesetter
> predominantly used by BSD systems during the last 25 years, that

i think everyone else have good reasons to be stuck on its own prefered
implementation.

> I think it's a general phenomenon that you can't have full unification
> among Free Software projects.  The best you can usually get is some
> cooperation to improve compatibility.

indeed.

regards
Marc



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