Eric S. Raymond wrote:
The groff project -- and I'm not sure what that means, other than
"Werner Lemburg" -- is going to have to decide how much portability it
wants. There's a sort of sliding scale of difficulty here.
Target 1: doclifter compatibility
Target 2: man2html compatibility
The patching I'm doing now will get us very close to this, possibly
all the way there. ...
Target 3: manServer compatibility
Target 4: troff-classic compatibility
Gunnar Ritter has just informed me that if we want these pages to
render
under AIX, Solaris, and HP/UX troff, we need to stop using long names.
All macro names would have to drop back to two characters. (We would
My two cents:
I don't think it's necessary to go to Target 4. If sites are using
Elder Troff, they won't have the groff pages anyway. As for other
projects, it's up to their writers whether they want to support Elder
Troff.
I don't have an opinion either way on Target 3. Personally, I think
Target 2 is adequate.
--
Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t
Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival"
http://unixtext.org/
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