[Groff] groff on GNU

[Ted Harding]

Hi Folks,

Visiting http://www.gnu.org for a quite separate purpose,
I started to browse in the FSF "software directory":

  http://directory.fsf.org/

and began to wonder where to look for groff. The list of
categories is not particularly helpful, but I explored
by burrowing down through

   Text creation and manipulation -> Documentation tools

and there is groff -- described as "Document formatting system".
There also is LaTeX -- described as "Typesetting system".

I feel groff is a bit slighted by this, since it is as much
a typesetting system as LaTeX is! I suspect that the groff
description carries the burden of groff's role in formatting
man-pages, i.e. supporting Unix-style documentation, which
masks its true merits as a typesetting system.

I feel this should be changed!

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

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