Re: [Groff] Future direction of groff

[Eric S. Raymond]

Tadziu Hoffmann <address@hidden>:
> 
> > I'd miss pic, though.  I like pic.  I'd like to decouple pic
> > from troff and save it.
> 
> Do you think you could accept graphviz/dot as a replacement?
> It "feels" similar, and it produces (among others) svg and pdf.

Maybe.  One advantage pic has is that it's better for producing 
box-and-arrow diagrams with a specified spatial layout, as opposed
to an automatically generated one.

There's a pic2svg already in existence.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>