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Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?
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Ingo Schwarze |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation? |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:22:58 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
Hi James,
James K. Lowden wrote on Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:45:49AM -0400:
> The roff language is the only markup language in current use that was
[...]
> As Hoare said of Algol, it is an improvement over its successors.
Heh. That's a good one!
> Cross references in mdoc, for example, do not generate links in HTML
They do with mandoc(1) -Thtml.
> or PDF documents.
Right, that looks like a missing feature in both groff and mandoc.
> It's pretty rare just to find manpages rendered in proportional HTML
> fonts.
Reading this, my first thought was "that can hardly be true any
longer", and indeed:
https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7
http://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/core/groff/roff.7.en
https://linux.die.net/man/7/roff
Then again, admittedly,
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/groff/roff.7.en.html
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=roff
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?roff
https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=roff
https://illumos.org/man/5/mandoc_roff
http://man.minix3.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/roff.7.html
So yeah, even though proportional font is slowly becoming more
widely used, you may be right: The legacy of Wolfram Schneider's
FreeBSD man.cgi is still pretty widespread and even motivated Michael
Stapelberg to use a fixed width font for Debian, even though the
rendering engine he uses would happily support proportional fonts.
Yours,
Ingo
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, (continued)
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Nate Bargmann, 2018/04/16
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, James K. Lowden, 2018/04/19
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/19
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, James K. Lowden, 2018/04/19
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Nate Bargmann, 2018/04/21
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/04/21
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, James K. Lowden, 2018/04/21
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/22
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Deri James, 2018/04/22
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Larry Kollar, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?,
Ingo Schwarze <=
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Larry Kollar, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/20