Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mit-vax!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Broff and a proposed net project Message-ID: <506@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 04:12:56 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.506 Posted: Wed Jul 27 04:12:56 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 13:10:58 EDT References: <3123@arizona.UUCP> <5276@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 12 Since you have indicated that you agree that there are problems with *roff-style formatters, why are you designing another one? There is currently an ISO Draft-Proposed Standard for a Text Processing Programming Language and for a Text Processing Markup Language. Perhaps you should look into this, rather than redoing a twenty-year-old formatter. The TPPL is a highly structured language, and the markup language takes all the good ideas from Scribe and then does it right. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar