Add groff/troff to the textproc tools entry.
Requested/reviewed by: dds Suggested by: Pedro <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com> (via dds)
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<ideas>
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<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
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<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
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$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.84 2008/04/08 06:18:59 yar Exp $
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$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.85 2008/04/08 10:44:33 jkoshy Exp $
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</cvs:keyword>
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</cvs:keywords>
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<p>Create/port BSD-licensed versions of one or more of the text processing
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tools that are currently missing from the FreeBSD distribution:
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<strong>sort</strong>,
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<strong>diff</strong>, and the
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<strong>diff</strong>,
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<strong>groff/troff</strong> and the
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<strong>grep</strong> family.
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Licensed versions of some or all of these tools are already included
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in OpenBSD, so this task involves more porting and feature completion
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Emphasis should be placed on performance, standards-compliance, and support
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for handling wide character sets.
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</p>
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<p>Regarding groff/troff, there exist the <a
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href="http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html">OpenSolaris
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versions</a> at SourceForge which at least do not come with a viral license
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like the current GNU versions we use. Additionally this implementation has
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support for common vector fonts and unicode. If those utilities are
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option-compatible or not has to be analyzed. A port of this is already
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available as textproc/heirloom-doctools.
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</p>
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<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Knowledge of C.</li>
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