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From: jay@unm-la.UUCP (Jay Plett)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: "picture" preprocessors (re: ideal)
Message-ID: <632@unm-la.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 23:17:04 EST
Article-I.D.: unm-la.632
Posted: Thu Apr 16 23:17:04 1987
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References: <1963@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <21@blipyramid.BLI.COM> <1124@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
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Summary: ideal is still part of the ditroff source distribution

In article <1124@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>, rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:
> ..........  Once they started marketing System V and ``Documenter's
> Workbench'' they stopped marketing ideal; my guess is that it's
> because they didn't have anybody in the support group to support it;

AT&T still licenses Device-independent troff (ditroff) as an unsupported
product.  Ideal is included in the package, as is tbl, eqn, pic and grap.
I haven't tried to compile ideal, but the rest of the distribution
is sound.  It has recently (Jan 86) been updated so that the code is nearly
identical to DWB 2.0.  The biggest difference is the lack of DWB's fancy
manuals and some of the auxiliary programs.
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	Jay Plett
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