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Subject: Re: Why isn't ATK more widely used?
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Date: 27 Jul 90 09:21:43 GMT
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> >- printing for all of ATK is very delicate.  It requires that one have
> >AT&T ditroff, and Adobe's transcript package.
> 
> Wouldn't another *roff clone work as well?  How's Transcript required?

Presumably the only ditroff facility required is the ability to embed
postscript source within the troff document. GNU roff provides this
facility, and I'm looking at using it as a replacement *roff backend.