From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66BD01372 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:50:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.169.23.250 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1739411435; cv=none; b=NY22I+GYW1JwxPKbEZBHhmT4c5Z8pRsOqejAsOIid7x9+yAklh1I4KiCQb7a+qmUEs1+sdwC/K6blT2v82SMNbiVnUbACCbAfIpI0XnkXijsso2MF3FMWPCKBUvvgACb7Gms/4HoWTnFciwwEMzigBi2+Sw4WsmR9MbObtrCpOg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1739411435; c=relaxed/simple; bh=aGsk3qlGXeOAvRmIiMRtkhJGzxbgPLyypo6pz3qjZB4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=u3UyljpdAttl/10pM9be2vAPKEoJlCmrUHJs8oKaOrbHZHCJfLEodoHhCJ28pWIvALX9lGdW+FdtJrAVYIzMXW2ExrPtJCAALaVRKlUtGS3WZATorH8eK7hUV/ow/NfrCz0FU7erq3Y0FCi8DjLFbi/Cgd4fInroQMUAxwVrJBM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=mcvoy.com; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=mcvoy.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.169.23.250 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=mcvoy.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=mcvoy.com Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 4456435E918; Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:45:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:45:22 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: "G. Branden Robinson" Cc: Alejandro Colomar , ?????? , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, tuhs@tuhs.org Subject: Re: [TUHS] Re: Unix V10 Volume 2 PDFs Message-ID: <20250213014522.GF31438@mcvoy.com> References: <6jefoqbmf6fwzjjvonee7npjvpvwayksydqjcouijbfufipn4z@adrjauck4ov4> <20250213012107.urh4ndk4tnnzm3wx@illithid> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250213012107.urh4ndk4tnnzm3wx@illithid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 07:21:07PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Doesn't groff(1) handle the Unix sources? > > Assuming the full source of a document is available, and no part of its > toolchain requires software that is unavailable (like Van Wyk's "ideal" > preprocessor) then if groff cannot satisfactorily render a document > produced by the Bell Labs CSRC, then I'd consider that presumptively a > bug in groff. In my experience, groff has handled decades old troff source and done a great job. I'd not be surprised if there was something that didn't work, but the vast majority of the stuff I've tried has worked just fine. --lm