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Re: Two trivial questions
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Larry McVoy |
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Re: Two trivial questions |
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Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:26:39 -0700 |
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:19:56PM -0700, Dale Snell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 2:38 PM Peter Schaffter <peter@schaffter.ca> wrote:
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> > Is there a correct pronunciation of groff? I've been
> > checking out YouTube videos on groff. The uploaders
> > all say "groff" (one syllable, like "gruff"). I say
> > "g-roff" (to match t-roff and n-roff).
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> Count me as a happy member of the ???gee-roff??? camp.
I'm an n-roff, t-roff, g-roff guy. I still have the docs that I got from
UW-Madison in about 1982 from the CS department, nroff, troff, eqn, pic.
Still useful today.