Follow-up Comment #16, bug #64018 (project groff):
My stance on that is: you can do two spaces after a full stop if you want (I
won’t as I’m continental-european), but not in fixed-width / monospaced
settings, as the dot is already widened there by necessity. But I was just
using the terms american vs french spacing as that’s what my text editor
uses.
> not Kernighan's rewrite
I think that means the same thing as I was referring to as ditroff earlier.
The tape archive I have was sent to me by someone from a UK university
(another entity which cannot hold copyright), so it’s not entirely
unmodified, but certainly this historic artefact AIUI. I’ll point you to it
in private mail, perhaps it helps. As I said, I’d need a licence I don’t
have to make use of it myself, otherwise I would have liked to use it.
AIUI both Plan 9’s and heirloom-doctools are also both of that lineage.
No, I’m stuck with the 1970s nroff.
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As to C++… one thing is I don’t speak it myself, and I prefer to use
software I can maintain if needed (it happened too often that I suddenly
became the new maintainer, including with GNU CVS funnily enough, at least
de-facto, the Savannah people asked me, but they never got the de-iure part
done).
The other thing is that the MirBSD base compiler is an ancient GCC, and to not
have its C++ part (but if one wants C++ then install one of the newer
compilers from ports) makes library versioning easier (some things _need_ the
newer compilers, and you can’t mix those with libraries from the old G++ due
to ABI changes). So this was a deliberate decision in the context of a hobby
OS.
Goodnight,
//mirabilos
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