Re: [Groff] troff(1) and info

[Larry Kollar]

Ted Harding wrote:

> > Ghostview doesn't display bookmarks... are there any free PDF
> > readers that do?
> 
> Depends what you mean by "free".
> 
> Acrobat Reader does it, and is available for free download
> ( http://www.adobe.com ).
> 
> However, it's not FSF/GPL-free, and I don't know of a viewer,
> free in this sense, which does display these things.

I'd settle for source-available. My normal Linux system is a
PowerPC (Mac G3), and Adobe hasn't seen fit to make a PPC
Linux version of Acrobat Reader. (Nothing like a non-Intel
CPU to guarantee a filesystem containing only free software. :-)

The other thing that gv doesn't do is recognize hyperlinks in
PDF files. This is ironic, since e-open's newsletter comes out
as a PDF and the only way to use all its features is to use
non-free software to read it....

However, I was recently given a somewhat resource-limited 486
system. I'm building it up into a Linux-based writing work-
station, groff-based of course. (Which reminds me -- will older
versions of egcs compile the latest versions of groff?)


> By the way, Larry: Thanks for reading your "diversion" back into
> the list. I found what you wrote balanced and to the point (but
> then, since I seem to find that I agree with your views, I would,
> wouldn't I?).

:-)
Well, I think we're all here because we want to be.  Anyone
who prefers TeX or Lout would likely be on those lists instead
of this one, no?

        Larry