On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 07:22:16PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > but more relevantly for this thread, there still exist systems > out there running a troff descended from Unix System V/DWB 2.0, and I > want to encourage their admins to replace it with GNU roff.
I don't have a horse in this race but I've been using groff for decades and it has never let me down. A while back I made some changes to the -ms setup and made things "nicer". Ran a bunch of old Unix docs through it and it just worked. Hmm, there is one place that let me down, groff's pic, when you do big thick lined boxes with rounded corners, yeah, the corners didn't match up with the box. It's a small thing, I noticed because I have some scripts that turn my notes into slide packs and I used those boxes as a "container" for each slide. I asked Sun's sales people if I should switch to something more professional and they said "absolutely not, your slides look like an engineer did them" :-) So 35 years ago that was a feature... -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
