Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

[Joerg van den Hoff]

Larry Kollar wrote:
> I stumbled across this today, and didn't see anything about it in the 
> archives.
>
> http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
>
> "The Heirloom Documentation Tools package provides troff, nroff, and 
> related utilities.... They are portable and enhanced versions of the 
> utilities released by Sun as part of OpenSolaris, which are a variant of 
> ditroff, which, in turn, descends to the historical Unix troff that 
> generated output for the C/A/T phototypesetter."
>
> There might be something worth cherry-picking. :-)
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that's rather interesting! installation is a bit funny: you have to edit 
`mk.config' and set lots of dirnames manually (no configure) but then
`make; make install' (you need a ucb compatibel `install') worked 
without a single warning (under MacOS, which might be a consequence of 
the fact that this is very near to FreeBSD anyway)

try out formatting some documents with groff and this `suntroff' (for 
lack of a better name). small interesting differences emerge in the 
output (not difficult to find but to spare you the time: the standard 
processing queue for suntroff (and ms macros) would be

cat some_file.trf | tbl | eqn | troff -ms | dpost > output.ps

and there is ptx included: is this a good tool for index generating or 
can I forget about it (did'nt catch the bottom line of the recent thread)?


thank you
joerg