[TUHS] formatting 1981 troff today?

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 01:15:30PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Arnold,
> 
> > > Could you use a late-edition Unix as an alternative?
> >
> > No, I don't have any kind of SimH setup and that's overkill.
> > In particular I want to be able to use Git so that I can make changes
> > if necessary.
> 
> I was thinking the native makefile would update a disk image, then have
> the simulated system mount that ???disk???, run the hosted make, and
> unmount.  Or any other means to sync the native files to the old system
> just for the build step.
> 
> But I agree that could be a faff if you just want to get the book built.
> Heirloom's a good starting place.

Have you just tried groff?  I'm guessing you have, it produced something,
but you are not sure it is correct?

For me, groff tends to just work.