Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: What features would you like in GNU troff? Message-ID: <776@pcrat.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 89 02:43:44 GMT References: Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Distribution: comp Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 16 In article jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes: >I have been implementing a troff which I'm going to give to GNU, and I > >So far it has almost all V7 troff features, as well as most ditroff >It can produce both TeX .dvi and PostScript output, Remember that it isn't ditroff compatible unless it supports at least the basic ditroff intermediate format. SQ made this mistake, and I hope GNU doesn't, too. The intermediate format is used by indexers and postprocessors, is documented, and should be supported. -- Rick Richardson | JetRoff "di"-troff to LaserJet Postprocessor|uunet!pcrat!dry2 PC Research,Inc.| Mail: uunet!pcrat!jetroff; For anon uucp do:|for Dhrystone 2 uunet!pcrat!rick| uucp jetroff!~jetuucp/file_list ~nuucp/. |submission forms. jetroff Wk2200-0300,Sa,Su ACU {2400,PEP} 12013898963 "" \d\r\d ogin: jetuucp