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From: rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Groff
Summary: it is ready for "real" use
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.155354.2204@noao.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:53:54 GMT
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In article <1990Nov14.094039.11153@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk writes:
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>I'm not sure that groff is really ready for that kind of use yet.

It is.  groff-0.6 is an *impressive* package.  I've found it far more
reliable than DWB 2.0.  The few discrepancies that I have found have
been responded to and fixed by the author within 24 hours.  I have run
hundreds of complicated pages through it (mainly pic and gtroff; very
little eqn).  I use it with -ms, so I don't know about the problems
with -mm.

groff has most of the new features from DWB 3.1 (shaded boxes in pic,
variable line width in pic, etc...) plus some features that I don't
think are in DWB 3.1 (kerning, far better hyphenation, etc.).

It did take me about a day to bring it up (along with all the necessary
tools (g++, gcc, bison, etc.) on a SPARC running SunOS 4.1.  The downside
is that I now have to learn C++ to modify it  :-)

	Rich Stevens