PostScript in mandoc now available.

[Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps%bsd.lv@localhost>]

Hi,

I notice that joerg@ just checked in the build glue for mdocml-1.10.2 in 
NetBSD.  This is good news.

First, background.  When mandoc (nà mdocml) was first mentioned here,

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/03/thread1.html#001766

one of the issues raised with missing PostScript functionality.

Under the auspices of Google's SoC, this is no longer the case: the 
checked-in version has support for PostScript output via -Tps.  This 
stands alongside the existing outputs of the terminal (-Tascii), HTML 
(-Thtml), XHTML (-Txhtml), and linting (-Tlint).

At the moment, -Tps produces monospaced, font-styled output. Variable 
fonts are currently in development (as I work on parsing glyph widths 
and doing the unicode dance), along with a -Tpdf option to keep pace 
with -Tps.  PDF support isn't technically part of the GSoC project, but 
it's related in terms of implementation space.

Anyway, invoking the PostScript driver is easy:

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?mandoc++NetBSD-current

Please let me know, those of you who make heavy use of the current -Tps 
option to troff, whether there are any neat functions you'd like used, 
e.g., the option to output A4 instead of US-letter.

Kristaps "Mischka"

PS, mandoc was also discussed recently on undeadly, which may be of 
interest:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100604082319&mode=expanded&count=19