Hi Robert, you forgot to Cc the list. I hope you won't mind if I do.
On Wed Dec 4, 2024 at 12:13 AM CET, Robert Thorsby wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > On 4/12/24 09:48, onf wrote: > > There are things that Heirloom troff can do that groff can't; > > check the attached file. It also wouldn't surprise me at all > > if there were things that TeX can do that no troff can, and > > likewise for the paid typesetting programs like Adobe InDesign. > > The only thing in that file that groff can't do (and which is > universally acknowledged) is paragraph formatting. The other stuff it can. > > Of course, some of it has to be done by trickery, For example, creating > a donut is done by incorporating pure postscript into the input file. > > Also, don't forget that most of John Warnock's DTP ideas were taken from > open source and free (in the Stallman use of that term) programs. > FrameMaker is one such that comes to mind. Groff is another. > > I suspect that taking one groff request and basing an entire argument on > it might be counter-productive. :-) I think the author of the rd request > may have been scratching an itch. > > Cheers, > Robert I would argue that if a feature necessitates the embedding of PostScript instructions, it's not a feature that groff supports. ~ onf