On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 12:10, Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, helpful and enlightening, and I am pursuing the > Heirloom distribution. Shame about the name, though, sounds like > 'legacy' which has come to mean out-of-date. Troff is one of those > software designs that far exceeded in its capabilities the purposes > for which it was originally designed. > > But I have to dispute the matter of ordinary users not needing to > modify files. The DESC file as distributed supposes a North American > user base, with the papersize variable set to letter. This has a > number of minor implications for layout specification, but also > results in printers either demanding that letter-size paper be loaded, > which means at the least fiddling with printer settings to pretend > that A4 paper is really letter size paper, or in some cases the > document just not printing in my experience.
I think the general expectation might be users that need to modify settings take a copy of the relevant groff_font dir and set GROFF_FONT_PATH (That doesn't change the fact that NetBSD would benefit from a better way of managing locally modified files on upgrades :) David
