Out of curiosity, would you find it incredibly inconvenient if troff and nroff were shuffled out of illumos gate and stashed in a separate repo somewhere? (Note that it is unclear which distros would continue to ship it -- they'd have the option.)
(Note that I'm not currently planning on this, just contemplating the option.) On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Coy Hile <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Good question. I'd torch them if it were up to me. I suppose in theory > someone might have some content in .ms or something like that (I wrote > papers in .ms macros when I was in school). My preference would be to > eject them from the illumos-gate, and let folks get them from another > repository if they really want them. My gut is that nobody uses these for > anything except man pages. > > > > > Me, I still us troff for doing real work (with -ms macros). I find it more > readable for the most part than TeX and friends. (I, too, hate LaTeX, > preferring plain TeX or AMS-TeX if needed.) > > -c ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
