Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> I would claim it is. The groff manual pages also cannot be
> displayed properly by other manual page viewers. There are
> some glitches even with Heirloom troff; although it can handle
> the language, some groff-specific macros do not exist in its
> -man implementation.
> 
> So I think this is worth fixing regardless of the specific
> case of DocBook conversion. groff is by far not the only
> program which is used to display the groff manual pages.

Excellent point.

Because response on the list was supportive, I went ahead and stripped 
groff.1.  It's enclosed.  You may have trouble spotting the differences,
which is sort of the idea.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

fixed-groff.man
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