Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Mon, May 01, 2017 at 12:15:55PM -0400:
> You mentioned deroff(1); GNU roff does not provide its own > implementation of it, and Debian doesn't offer one. Hugh? Then what does the spell(1) utility call that is contained in whatever base operating system you use? I'm a bit surprised that such basic tools might be missing anywhere, causing people to search in the woods. > Web searches aren't much help, If you are desperate, try using the OpenBSD implementation, it is very old, not under active development, and likely more or less portable after you #define away the pledge(2) calls: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/deroff/ https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/spell/ Or you can use the mandoc implementation, contained in the portable mandoc releases, called "demandoc(1)": http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports.html http://mdocml.bsd.lv/man/demandoc.1.html http://mdocml.bsd.lv/snapshots/mdocml.tar.gz It ought to be more or less compatible with deroff(1). Yours, Ingo
