Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!necntc!ames!amdcad!sun!cairo!tut From: tut%cairo@Sun.COM (Bill Tuthill) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: "Berkeley version" of ditroff ? Message-ID: <23656@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 14:43:56 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.23656 Posted: Thu Jul 16 14:43:56 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 08:43:44 EDT References: <1490@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <360e65f8.1054@apollo.uucp> <326@rocksanne.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: na Lines: 19 In article <326@rocksanne.UUCP>, lee@rocksanne.UUCP (Lee Moore) writes: > At some time in the distant past I'd seen references to a "Berkeley version" > of ditroff. Is this real, or was this a bad pointer? If it is real, what > is this "Berkeley version" and how would I get it? A few years back, the UC Berkeley Computer Science dep't distributed tapes of a modified ditroff package, which included gremlin (a Mac-like graphics editor that ran on Suns and other graphics devices), and dsun/dsuntool (a ditroff previewer for the Sun workstation). Gremlin required extensions to troff involving polygon fill, and the fallout from that was that all the device filters needed changing as well. My advice is, don't do it. Since this troff is non-standard you're stuck with maintaining an odd version forever. Gremlin has a rather mediocre user interface; I prefer fig from U Texas, even though fig doesn't do shading and polygon fill. But dsun/dsuntool is great if you have a Sun workstation, and could even be modified for another workstation. Bill