URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68045>
Summary: reorganize {eqn,grap,pic}2graph into one directory,
"wrs-recipes" or similar
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 13 Feb 2026 11:45:52 PM UTC
Category: General
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Lint
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 13 Feb 2026 11:45:52 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
There is heavy overlap in code and documentation among the three tools
{eqn,grap,pic}2graph in their 3 distinct directories in "contrib".
Boil them down to a template man page and template shell script.
Why "wrs-receipes"? Because, per Eric Raymond, who contributed these to
_groff_--or at least as I understand his characteristically imprecise
language--the technique(s) implemented by these scripts was/were copied from
W. Richard Stevens's home page. Sadly, since that time, Stevens has passed
away, but his home page is still online.
Possibly, the "recipes" in question are somewhere navigable from
http://kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html , but I haven't found them (with a
_brutally_ cursory search, so they could well be there).
Born postponed; for _groff_ 1.25 consideration.
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