11 Jan
2022
11 Jan
'22
8:13 a.m.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes:
As long as man pages are formatted with ?roff, I
don't see it going
away. I don't suppose many people use troff any more, but there are
enough of us, and as long as man pages stay the way they are, I don't
think we're in any danger.
Well there is mandoc(1). But as time goes by they just seem to be
re-implementing nroff. Of course that *must* be easier than just
learning n/troff in the first place :-P
I really don't understand this need to throw troff overboard. The
code, both GNU and AT&T implementations, has been rock solid for
decades. It's not like there are portability issues moving it
between platforms. Provided the kiddies don't get in there and
linuxify the code, of course.
--lyndon