13 Feb
2025
13 Feb
'25
1:45 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 07:21:07PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
In my experience, groff has handled decades old troff source and done
a great job. I'd not be surprised if there was something that didn't
work, but the vast majority of the stuff I've tried has worked just
fine.
--lm
Doesn't
groff(1) handle the Unix sources?
Assuming the full source of a document is available, and no part of its
toolchain requires software that is unavailable (like Van Wyk's "ideal"
preprocessor) then if groff cannot satisfactorily render a document
produced by the Bell Labs CSRC, then I'd consider that presumptively a
bug in groff.