On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:08:39AM +0000, David Holland wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:03:21PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > > Well, there is lout to consider. > > [...] > > > I've never used it for manpage rendering though! A simple `awk' > > > script could indeed do it as its format is quite easy. Uwe has > > > experience with it :) > > > > Right, and in my experience it would be completely unsuitable. :) > > > > Now, don't get me wrong, I love Lout and and when I need a batch > > formatter it's what I use unless there are strong overriding reasons. > > But it's *way* slower than roff or tex (remember, that troff and tex > > are macro processors, while lout uses a functional language). > > If speed is the primary problem it's probably fixable...
Yeah, who uses rendering a manpage in a tight loop ;) If it runs on the older machines in a few seconds I don't think its going to be an issue. And it isn't that slow is it? Reinoud
