Ralph Corderoy :
> Perhaps [ideal has] become available since then as part of one of their
> re-licensings?
I can find no evidence of any such happy development on the web.
> Are you aware of
>
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/103.ps.gz,
> CSTR #103, C. J. Van Wyk, Bell Labs, Decembe
Hi,
Doug wrote:
> There is one property of TeX (and HTML) that's worth emulating:
> recursive nesting. It's a challenge to the preprocessor model (eqn,
> tbl, pic), but one that deserves serious consideration. How about
> letting "preprocessors" be called by piping segments out and back, not
> o
Hi Eric,
Doug wrote:
> > In pic, the thing I miss most is polygons (preferably allowing arcs
> > and splines as edges) that can be filled. After that, the next step
> > is a big one: lightweight constraint-based drawing; Van Wyk's Ideal
> > (SIGPLAN Notices 16:6) is a proof of concept. Can that b
> The biggest culprit is info--a maddeningly archaic facility to which
> Gnu clings tenaciously. Unless it can be foreseen how new man
> macros would displace texinfo from its throne, the exercise will
> largely be in vain.
I think this is a bit unfair. Given that info was essentially the
first
Doug McIlroy :
> I agree that good candidates for updating the man macros are likely
> to be found among the readership of this mailing list. However,
> the biggest problem with man pages is that people don't write them.
> groff_mom(7) is a recent example--all it does is point somewhere
> else. The
I have just seen that these comments, which have been gestating
for some time, are somewhat outdated by the appearance of mission
statement 3. Still I think they may be of some use.
Mission statement 2 begins with a precis of what groff is, but no |
overt expression of the purpose of the groff
