MBECK@ai.ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker) (11/19/88)
Before I key in Allen Holub's "nr" formatter, I'm wondering if there's a public-domain version of nroff Out There somewhere. Pointers would be appreciated. Mark Becker mbeck@AI.AI.MIT.EDU
housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) (11/20/88)
In article <5562@louie.udel.EDU>, MBECK@ai (Mark Becker) writes: >Before I key in Allen Holub's "nr" formatter, I'm wondering if there's >a public-domain version of nroff Out There somewhere. > >Pointers would be appreciated. > >Mark Becker >mbeck@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Not that's ever been seen around here. I suspect there isn't. You don't have to key in NR - it is available on disk from M&T Publishing for a reasonable cost. Be forewarned, however, that it takes several hours of hacking to get working on Minix. Things that had to be done included: 1) Commenting out the function prototypes for the Minix C compiler. 2) Removing all references to the hyphenation routines. There just isn't room. 3) Splitting one of the files (I forget which one - it's the big one that handles most of the dot-commands) into two sections and joining them with a ".h" file. 4) Writing a couple of routines missing from libc. 5) Using a version of "asld" with its chmem value kicked up somewhat. The "-i" option needs to be used too. 6) Other misc. changes. While I was at it, I changed things so that nroff-compatible copy mode is the default, and wrapped a ".cm" around the -ms macros. The NR copy mode is bogus. If anybody wants a little more detail than this, plus my version of the "-man" macros for NR/Minix, I can post them. -Peter S. Housel- housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu ...!pur-ee!housel
dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher) (11/28/88)
> Before I key in Allen Holub's "nr" formatter, I'm wondering if there's > a public-domain version of nroff Out There somewhere. I have source for an nroff that I believe is publically distributable. I've been working (back burner) on getting the -man macro package ready for use with it. It looks like a pretty accurate and complete nroff, but I won't know for sure until it play with it some more. Right now, getting my Supra drive working with Minix-ST and getting uucico/uucp/mail/news working are higher priority... -- Dale Schumacher 399 Beacon Ave. (alias: Dalnefre') St. Paul, MN 55104 ...pwcs!stag!syntel!dal United States of America "It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things."