On Apr 8, 2015, at 13:16, David Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:27:02AM +0000, Ron Swiernik wrote: >> Again this is an enhancement? Can mandoc handle tbl and pic input? >> >> UNIX has had the *roff tool suite for a long time. A text formatter is how >> they >> got support from management to continue work on UNIX. I doubt we would be >> talking about UNIX today if it wasn't for the suite. > > ... but it seems to me that neither *roff nor an MS Office > knock-off will buy UNIX much relevance in 2015. What's next?
Agreed. In my ~20 years of using NetBSD, I've used *roff for something other than formatting manpages maybe twice (it was to format the stuff in /usr/share/doc, and only because I was curious to read them, not because I really needed them). I don't get the resistance to move things to pkgsrc. If nroff is important to you, grab the binary package and install it--nobody's saying that you won't be able to use it. The rest of the world isn't going to flock to NetBSD because it still has a text formatter that uses .commands as inline markup. -- Name: Dave Huang | Mammal, mammal / their names are called / INet: [email protected] | they raise a paw / the bat, the cat / FurryMUCK: Dahan | dolphin and dog / koala bear and hog -- TMBG Dahan: Hani G Y+C 39 Y++ L+++ W- C++ T++ A+ E+ S++ V++ F- Q+++ P+ B+ PA+ PL++
