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From: jeburke@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (John Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: wanted: ftp sites for xroff or TeX
Summary: What is xroff?
Keywords: xroff troff
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Date: 16 Mar 90 13:23:00 GMT
Expires: 23 Mar 90 00:00:00 GMT
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In article <902@sjfc.UUCP> kes3200@sjfc.UUCP (Ken Staggers) writes:
>Hello-
>
>  I have finally gotten over my 'fear' of xroff and have been using it, as
>well as tbl, to create my resume and a work schedule (how do you shade in
>grid boxes or center names in the boxes?).
>
>  Anyway, are there any ftp sites where I can pick up more fonts for xroff
>(where did xroff come from anyway?)?  We currently have Roman, Italics,
>Sans Serif, and Bold Roman.  What about macro packages (I am not yet ready
>to write my own)?  Is there a place where I can ftp them?
>
>--Ken

Er, sorry if this is a stupid question (I phase in and out of this
group, so I sometimes miss threads) but what exactly is xroff.  Is it
a PD replacement for troff, and if so, how good is it?  We are not
terribly happy with standard troff and have been considering a third
party solution, but public domain software would probably be quite
acceptable if it were sufficiently reliable and well documented. 

Thanks hand     (thanks beforehand)

John Burke
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