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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: troff isn't stagnant (was: Re: TeX/LaTeX are not stagnant!...)
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, troff, JetRoff, SoftQuad, sqtroff, xroff
Message-ID: <1989Oct28.014844.6719@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 28 Oct 89 01:48:44 GMT
References: <1989Oct27.013038.20902@sq.sq.com>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1989Oct27.013038.20902@sq.sq.com> lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
>>Actually, TeX and LaTeX are not stagnant
>
>And neither, of course, is troff:
>AT&T may have frozen Documenter's WorkBench, but companies such as Image
>Networks, Elan and SoftQuad Inc. are continuing development.

Even AT&T's troff isn't stagnant.  There's a DWB 3.0 release internal
to AT&T (works w/JetRoff), and I received mail from Brian Kernighan
this past summer that indicated that he was working on another
version of troff.

Whether or not AT&T's software licensing department is stagnant,
well, that's another question entirely.

-Rick
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