[Groff] Replacing groff with troff?

There's currently a discussion going on in the FreeBSD project about replacing groff (which is part of the base system, mainly to process man pages) with a specialized man page processor, and relegate groff to the Ports Collection as an add-on. During the discussion, Plan 9 troff was mentioned (ht

Re: [Groff] Replacing groff with troff?

Hi Greg, > There's currently a discussion going on in the FreeBSD project about > replacing groff (which is part of the base system, mainly to process > man pages) with a specialized man page processor, and relegate groff > to the Ports Collection as an add-on. I suppose they can ensure all the

[Groff] setting PD with ms macros has no apparent effect

I wrote the following expecting the gap between paragraphs to increase from .3v to .6v. Can anyone suggest what I have missed. I am invoking it as: groff -ms abc.groff -X test .br test2 .br PD \n[PD] .br .nr PD .6v \" ( \n[PD] * 4 ) .br PD \n[PD] .LP .bp .br test .br test2 .br -- View this me