discuss: linuxdoc text backend
Subject:
Re: [discuss] linuxdoc text backend
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
15 Oct 2005 08:37:07 -0000
Message-Id: <20051015083721.GB1455@lafn.org>
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:15:26PM +0200, Stein Gjoen wrote:
> Moreover the briefest perusal suggests there are a few bugs,
> some of which are 9 years old, some reports contain patches,
> so it would appear that maintenance of LinuxDoc-tools has
> not been the highest priorities.
Sano's last message on the list was 2001 and the copyright in the
software by him is 2000. So it has been worked on 5 years ago.
> Does anyone here feel like taking over maintenance of it?
If I knew Perl, maybe. But I don't. groff supports latin1 but that
doesn't have the Euro symbol. So Linuxdoc needs to support more
character sets. It supports nippon and utf8 (which includes most all
characters but not efficiently since it often uses multiple
bytes/char).
David Lawyer
