10 Jan
2022
10 Jan
'22
10:06 p.m.
Steffen Nurpmeso writes:
Note that heirloom doctools (on github) is a
SysV-derived *roff
Wow, thanks for mentioning this. I was unaware of it. When I
recently wrote that it would be nice to add TeX's 2D formatting
to troff I didn't realize that it had already been done.
Something new to play with.
Jon
11 Jan
11 Jan
12:06 p.m.
New subject: TeX and groff (was: roff(7))
Hi Jon,
Steffen Nurpmeso writes:
There's also Neatroff by Ali Gholami Rudi. It has TeX's paragraph
formatting and several other new features, taking from Plan 9,
Heirloom, and Groff. IIRC, it's an implementation from scratch.
https://litcave.rudi.ir links to its introductary PDF in the first
paragraph, https://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf, and a Typesetting
section below the change-log.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Note that heirloom doctools (on github) is a
SysV-derived *roff
Wow, thanks for mentioning this. I was unaware of it. When
I recently wrote that it would be nice to add TeX's 2D formatting
to troff I didn't realize that it had already been done.
Something new to play with. 
3:52 p.m.
New subject: TeX and groff (was: roff(7))
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 6:13 AM Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk>
wrote:
There's also Neatroff by Ali Gholami Rudi. It has TeX's paragraph
formatting and several other new features, taking from
Plan 9,
Heirloom, and Groff.
I remember reading somewhere that some versions of `more' and/or `less'
used TeX paragraphing when breaking long lines for display, but I can't
track it down now.
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