#nroff — Public Fediverse posts

We first made the #curl build use #nroff for building the hugehelp file in December 1998, for curl 5.2. This makes "curl -M" work.

Now, I'm working on a change that finally removes nroff from the curl build process: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/13047

Is there a cross-platform way to add a horizontal rule/page-separator to a man page. Must be supported by groff, nroff, troff, and BSD's roff.
#roff #groff #nroff #troff #manpage #manpages

Is there a standardized format for the EXAMPLES section in man pages? Like should I put the description of the command fist, then the indented command? Or should I put the bolded command first and then an indented description? Which do people prefer?
#manpages #groff #nroff

Because @screwtape has fancy two column adjusted and filled text file in gopher, I retyped my gopher articles with heirloom #nroff.
#troff

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