On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:54:46AM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: > > Like with many other problems, the current situation is poor and > > there's also no particularly viable way forward. > > Well, there is lout to consider. Its a selfcontained program > written in C only with no external dependencies and can output in > EPS, PS and PDF next to normal raw text. It supports multi colum, > paragraph split prevention, kerning, references, math layout, > graphics etc.
Yeah, this falls under "(3) People go inventory the small number of existing alternatives to roff and tex". It's come up before, nobody has ever seemed particularly enthusiastic. :-| FWIW, pkgsrc says "gnu-gpl-v3", so that won't be super popular either. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
