> Does anyone know if there has been any effort to use TeX and al. for the > system typesetting i.e. the manpages and docs? (Translation of the troff > macros to TeX ones etc.---not to mention that for TeX (kerTeX), it needs > to be converted for utf-8 input; that's on my TODO list but I need to > finish the rewrite of the T1 lib for dvips(1) first, and the display for > METAFONT.)
Is this really necessary for the system documentation? AFAIK P9 nroff/troff can handle utf-8. If there are problems with *roff they should be solved. *roff is a Bell Labs documentation system--it should be used for P9--IMO.
