Rosen, Brian wrote:
Of course a big problem is the decreasing number of
IETF people who know nroff, and even fewer that are fluent,
and even fewer who would, if they had a choice, choose it
Vernon Schryver wrote:
No rocket science (but maybe some patience) is required to write nroff.
Thanks to groff, typesetting nroff has become free.
No rocket science, but perhaps archaeology.
In the early 1980s, a unix box (68ks, vaxen, et.al.) came
with a multi-volume manuals, including an nroff guide.
In this millennium, not all distros have nroff guides.
Who is still using this dino technology anyway?
regards,
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