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From: av@utacs.UTA.FI (Arto Viitanen)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?
Keywords: GNU, TeX
Message-ID: <712@utacs.UTA.FI>
Date: 2 Jun 89 08:00:36 GMT
References: <JJC.89May31220314@jclark.UUCP>
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Organization: University of Tampere, Dept. of Computer Science, Finland
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In article <JJC.89May31220314@jclark.UUCP> jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes:
>I have been implementing a troff which I'm going to give to GNU, and I
>would like to get some input on what features people would like to see
>in it.


Following is a caption from GNU Emacs' info section called "The GNU Manifesto"

We will use TeX as our text formatter, but an nroff is being worked on.

So what is the point to work on troff, when GNU will use TeX (for example
all the manuals are in TeXinfo format) ?