UTP Revisited: scoping the project

[Larry Kollar]

To be honest, I can’t believe over a fourth of my life has gone by since we 
started the
transcription.

Now, with sources where everyone can grab them, maybe we should talk about what 
we
want to do for UTP Revisited. These are just off the top of my head:

-  Update Chapter 3 to cover Vim (including gvim)
-  Update Chapter 4 to cover groff (and Heirloom and Neatroff, listing the most 
significant
   differences)*
-  Update Chapter 5 (-ms) and Chapter 6 (-mm) with groff extensions.
-  New chapter: Ways to work with other file formats, with the goal of getting 
content into
   [gt]roff. Cover conversion utilities such as pandoc and lowdown. I’ll take 
this one at least
   to first draft… maybe I’ll throw in a plug for Tines as a groff-friendly 
outliner, LOL.
-  Where DWB is mentioned, point out that some utilities (like pic) are part of 
the standard
   distributions now, and mention replacements for other DWB utilities. (Or has 
DWB been
   liberated?)

Should we talk about newer groff macro packages like -mom? What about utilities 
and
preprocessors? I think preconv is a must, do we want to at least mention grap 
or groffer?

Do we want to cover lighter editors, such as pico, nano, or joe?

What about “upstart" scripting languages such as Perl or Python?

OK, that’s all I have, and I’m up way past bedtime. Does anyone else have ideas 
about
what should be in an updated UTP?

— Larry

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*This implies updating the macros to work with non-groff formatters, and that 
implication
is deliberate on my part.