Re: Summary of man-page formatting

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:54:46AM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
 > > Like with many other problems, the current situation is poor and
 > > there's also no particularly viable way forward.
 > 
 > Well, there is lout to consider. Its a selfcontained program
 > written in C only with no external dependencies and can output in
 > EPS, PS and PDF next to normal raw text. It supports multi colum,
 > paragraph split prevention, kerning, references, math layout,
 > graphics etc.

Yeah, this falls under "(3) People go inventory the small number of
existing alternatives to roff and tex". It's come up before, nobody
has ever seemed particularly enthusiastic. :-|

FWIW, pkgsrc says "gnu-gpl-v3", so that won't be super popular
either.

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David A. Holland
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