jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) (03/21/90)
For some time ago someone was writing on groff, a ditroff clone. I would like to know about the current status of groff. Maybe it's possible to become a beta-site? -- Joergen Haegg jh@efd.lth.se postmaster@efd.lth.se System manager @ efd 046-107492 Lund Institute of Technology Sweden
jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) (03/22/90)
In article <1990Mar21.142319.2765@lth.se> jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes:
For some time ago someone was writing on groff, a ditroff clone.
I would like to know about the current status of groff.
Maybe it's possible to become a beta-site?
I'm still actively working it.
I decided that groff would only be truly useful if I wrote
preprocessors and drivers to go with it. So far I've written pic,
eqn, tbl, and a PostScript driver. Although these work reasonably
well on my machine, I still need to do a lot more work before I can
release the complete system: in particular I haven't done any
systematic testing and there is very little documentation; also groff
itself is rather slower that I would like.
I am considering releasing the pic separately. This has support for
TeX using the tpic specials, as well as ditroff. In addition to
implementing all the features of the DWB 2.0 pic, it provides support
for solid arrowheads and for filling boxes, circles and ellipses with
shades of gray as in tpic version 2 (for use with troff this feature
requires some simple extensions to drivers). Like the rest of the
groff system it is written in C++.
If you would like to beta test this and you have the latest version of
g++ (1.37.1) or AT&T C++ 2.0 *already working*, I should be happy to
email it to you. It costs me personally real money to email outside
the UK, so please don't ask me for it unless you seriously intend to
test it.
James Clark
jjc@jclark.uucp
jjc@ai.mit.edu