GSoC: BSD text tools

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:06:58PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> 
> > The use of (g)roff for anything but man pages is practically non-existent.
> 
> False.  Its a production tool used here.
> 	http://berklix.com./associates/
> 	http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/#card	 ( Try .PS card back X3 size
> All business letters, bills, business cards, ID cards,
> cdrom labels here use groff.
> 
> There's guys recently wrote me from Germany developing groff macros
> for .de iso standard business letters to the new standard.

...and this are located in the source tree where exactly? Noone prevents
you from installing groff or heirloom troff and using it. Pointing to
the odd case of users (still) depending on it for typical needs is IMO
more a confirmation of what I said and not really in disagreement.

Joerg