Follow-up Comment #13, bug #64018 (project groff): [comment #11 comment #11:] > The codebase is the “last” nroff I could use under the Caldera licence, i.e. that was shipped with a BSD covered by these. The macropackages are a conglomerate from the TUHS archives and pre-mdocml OpenBSD’s,
Is there anyplace these can currently be obtained? I'm curious to see if this is the same place from which the modernized (just for build/portability purposes) [https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3/ DWB 3.3 troff] originated. > but I invested heavily into them to get them to mostly work (modulo missing pieces). I also added a hack (with pre‑ and postprocessor) for 8-bit/UTF-8 support, but that’s nowhere near mature. > I only ported nroff, not troff (since nobody has the hardware it drives any more), That wouldn't be DWB 3.3 troff, then, because people do still have PostScript devices. https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3/tree/master/postscript/ [...] > With the exception of terminfo(5)¹ I use this exclusively to build catmanpages, but I use groff with custom fonts to build PDF manpages for the website for the “portable subprojects” like mksh. I hope that's a labor of love, because it sounds like punishment to me. (Which is no doubt what some people think of some of _my_ avocations...) > ① “Too many text block diversions”, which probably means this cannot be rendered with tbl(1) at all and needs GNU tbl, if I understand this correctly. Yes. _tbl_(1) from groff 1.23.0: GNU tbl enhancements In addition to extensions noted above, GNU tbl removes constraints endured by users of AT&T tbl. • Region options can be specified in any lettercase. • There is no limit on the number of columns in a table, regardless of their classification, nor any limit on the number of text blocks. • All table rows are considered when deciding column widths, not just those occurring in the first 200 input lines of a region. Similarly, table continuation (.T&) tokens are recognized outside a region’s first 200 input lines. • Numeric and alphabetic entries may appear in the same column. • Numeric and alphabetic entries may span horizontally. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64018> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
