[Groff] Compliments----

[John Rupley]

May I complement you and your colleagues and thank you all for the  
GNU troff suite.  It is obviously excellently done.

More to the point for me, it is a godsend.  I had used ATT DWB since  
the early 1980's.  One can accumulate a good bit of troff-formatted  
material over time.  A personal copy of DWB (licensed, of course) was  
ported from system to system.  Not too hard, actually.  But the  
utilities showed their age (old PS styles, no HTML, ...) and  
development had stopped.  The macros were quite unpleasant code to  
read.  Upon moving to Macs from one of the "true" Unices (although an  
Octane remains still chugging away as a mail server), I was  
envisioning having to let go of DWB and commit to an Adobe product,  
or whatever.  It was a delight and a relief to find groff as part of  
the standard Mac distribution.  Porting documents has been easy.  The  
code works.  The extensions are neat.  Importantly, the macros you  
and your colleagues write are nicely structured and are as much a  
pleasure as troff code can be to read.

Again, thank you.

Best wishes,

John



John Rupley
   address@hidden -or address@hidden
   30 Calle Belleza, Tucson AZ 85716
   (520) 325-4533; fax - (520) 325-4991
   Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
   Univ. Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721




On Jul 4, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I would go by what the printer manufacturers say -
>
> OK, your arguments sound convincing.  Fixed in the CVS.  And thanks
> for the report!
>
>
>     Werner