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



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