> On Jul 26, 2020, at 8:24 AM, Dave Kemper <saint.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Anyone interested in groff's long-term goals should check out its > mission statement > (http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff-mission-statement.html), > crafted after much discussion on this list several years ago. Three > core improvements it mentions for groff -- using a paragraph-at-once > formatting algorithm, and natively understanding modern fonts and > character encodings -- are already in Heirloom. That groff cannot do > the first at all, and requires external helpers (one of them not even > shipped with the package) for the latter two, ironically makes it look > more outdated than its "heirloom" counterpart.
Which is the external helper that lets it natively understand modern fonts? That would be huge! My primary interest in roff is as a text language for creating nice PDFs, and the current font situation is abysmal. I use Heirloom for some stuff, but the fact that it’s not a package available on most OSs and requires custom installation limits what I can use it for… Thanks, Ricky
