Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 24 May 2003 at 11:35:15 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
> Hi Larry,
>
>> There are a slew of free XML document processors under development;
>> one or more of them will certainly get off the ground. Groff would
>> make an excellent print engine for an XML document.
>
> Greg Lehey provided me with some info on the gmat system that O'Reilly
> use to convert DocBook into groff which I'll add to troff.org given the
> time.

For those of you who use FreeBSD, gmat is available in the Ports
Collection (/usr/ports/textproc/gmat).  It works for me, but I think
there may be some undocumented dependencies.  If anybody tries it and
has trouble getting it to do anything useful, please let me know.

Greg
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