[COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie)
Larry McVoy
lm at mcvoy.com
Fri Jul 27 11:04:12 AEST 2018
Wasn't the Hierloom troff Jeorg's work? Did Gunnar take over?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:00:41AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> > Still, TeX has one significant advantage over [gt]roff that I'm aware
> > of: it adjusts paragraphs, not lines, and it seems that in some cases
> > this give better looking layout.
>
> Gunnar Ritter's Hierloom troff, a descendent of OpenSolaris's, can
> adjust paragraphs rather than lines.
> http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
>
> Ali Gholami Rudi's neatroff, a troff re-implementation, adjusts
> paragraphs. Search for `paragraph-at-once' at http://litcave.rudi.ir/
> or http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf
>
> There could be others.
>
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