Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!jclark!jjc From: jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: groff? Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 90 12:50:24 GMT References: <1990Mar21.142319.2765@lth.se> Sender: news@jclark.uucp Organization: None Lines: 33 In-reply-to: jh@efd.lth.se's message of 21 Mar 90 14:23:19 GMT In article <1990Mar21.142319.2765@lth.se> jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes: For some time ago someone was writing on groff, a ditroff clone. I would like to know about the current status of groff. Maybe it's possible to become a beta-site? I'm still actively working it. I decided that groff would only be truly useful if I wrote preprocessors and drivers to go with it. So far I've written pic, eqn, tbl, and a PostScript driver. Although these work reasonably well on my machine, I still need to do a lot more work before I can release the complete system: in particular I haven't done any systematic testing and there is very little documentation; also groff itself is rather slower that I would like. I am considering releasing the pic separately. This has support for TeX using the tpic specials, as well as ditroff. In addition to implementing all the features of the DWB 2.0 pic, it provides support for solid arrowheads and for filling boxes, circles and ellipses with shades of gray as in tpic version 2 (for use with troff this feature requires some simple extensions to drivers). Like the rest of the groff system it is written in C++. If you would like to beta test this and you have the latest version of g++ (1.37.1) or AT&T C++ 2.0 *already working*, I should be happy to email it to you. It costs me personally real money to email outside the UK, so please don't ask me for it unless you seriously intend to test it. James Clark jjc@jclark.uucp jjc@ai.mit.edu