colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (01/08/86)
> >We are running 4.1 UNIX on a VAX 11/750; ..... > >.... I found that there are at most five nroff commands that are used(i.e. > >.bp, .nf, .ce) in 99.9% of the documents. Does anyone out there have a > >stripped-down version of nroff that only implements the.... > > AT&T sells (I think as part of the Documenter's Workbench?) a product called > "sroff". It's about 10 times as fast as nroff; if you include the mm macro > package it slows down to 3 times as fast. The mm stuff is compatible; > the macro facility is more limited, and it doesn't handle eqn or troff. But > it's fast, and even runs on MS-DOS PCs. I've got a public-domain C version of "roff," the precursor of nroff. No macros, ASCII output, looks like nroff, and probably fits on whatever you've got. And (like sroff) it's about 10 times as fast as nroff. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva