#groff — Public Fediverse posts

Hi @movq,
💯 #groff is wonderful for administrative #letter​s: https://unix-freunde.mro.name/archiv/2025-08-18T224722-Schreibmaschine%20groff_--_www.html #permacomputing

I've recently launched an idea at https://polytype.dev — a sort of Rosetta Stone for #typesetting engines.

The goal is to build up a sample gallery that showcases both differences and similarities between the input and output of #SILE, #TeXLaTeX, #Typst, #speedata, #weasyprint, #pagedjs, #groff, #satysfi, #patoline, and potentially others.

The source code is at https://github.com/alerque/polytype and contributions are very welcome! The UI in particular could use the touch of a front-end developer!

I must confess to some concern about what Groff's new standard means for the inevitable case where a religious employee insists on a Title VII right to misgender coworkers as a religious accommodation.

Will harm to the misgendered employees be considered to "affect the conduct of the business"?

#LGBTQ #equality #Groff #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #law #lawFedi #FediLaw #FediProf

There was also debate in #Groff about whether the calculus consider the effects on employees

The Court has held that "Impacts on coworkers are relevant only to the extent those impacts go on to affect the conduct of the business."

The Supreme Court in Groff also makes clear that hostility to a particular religion or religious accommodations is not the type of coworker impact that should be taken into consideration.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #TitleVII #religion #Law #lawFedi #Fedilaw

Title VII requires that employers provide religious accomodations to their employees unless it imposes an "undue hardship"

Previously, that was interpreted leniently as anything more than a de minimus cost

test is more now rigorous, so more protection for religious employees

[The Supreme Court adopted neither side's standard.

One wanted to keep it the same & the other wanted to incorporate the ADA undue hardship standard. ]

#TitleVII #religion #Groff #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #law #LawFedi

Why wasn't SCOTUS all onboard given its record of privileging religion regardless of cost?

Maybe
One, it was a clash between two of its favorite things, religion and business

Two, Kavanaugh observed there were religious interests on both sides, the Sabbath observer employee who felt compelled to go to church on Sunday and his coworkers who would cover him who might have wanted to go to church on Sunday.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Groff #TitleVII #FediLaw #Law #LawFedi #LawProf #employment

Ok, I'm pretty sure cawf 4.10 is the last version of cawf. It's from 1996. The minix version I was playing with earlier is either 4.8 or 4.9.

(groff released in '97, pretty much made cawf pointless)

It was an easy port to RISC OS. I have a little bit of packaging to do yet but it's basically done.

Unfortunately it still can't deal with mandoc or mdoc manpages.

#riscos #cawf #groff #nroff #manpages #mandoc #mdoc