Re: Groff

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> wrote:
>On 2015-06-04 09:43, Matt Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just in case you don't know, nearly any user has libxml2 and libxslt
>>> installed anyway.
>>
>> None of my systems do.
>
>I thought Aleksej was joking... The suggestion to get rid of groff 
>because it needed C++, and replace it with XML, a full blown web 
>browser, and god know how many libraries seemed like the ultimate joke.
>
>What happened to the original roff? I mean, groff is just a gnu 
>replacement for roff. Maybe switch back to the original?

The sources to all of DWB are available from AT&T:

<http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/download/>

It needs a bit of work to get it to build on NetBSD though.

Robert Swindells