Hi James, James K. Lowden wrote on Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:45:49AM -0400:
> The roff language is the only markup language in current use that was [...] > As Hoare said of Algol, it is an improvement over its successors. Heh. That's a good one! > Cross references in mdoc, for example, do not generate links in HTML They do with mandoc(1) -Thtml. > or PDF documents. Right, that looks like a missing feature in both groff and mandoc. > It's pretty rare just to find manpages rendered in proportional HTML > fonts. Reading this, my first thought was "that can hardly be true any longer", and indeed: https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7 http://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/core/groff/roff.7.en https://linux.die.net/man/7/roff Then again, admittedly, https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/groff/roff.7.en.html https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=roff http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?roff https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=roff https://illumos.org/man/5/mandoc_roff http://man.minix3.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7 http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/roff.7.html So yeah, even though proportional font is slowly becoming more widely used, you may be right: The legacy of Wolfram Schneider's FreeBSD man.cgi is still pretty widespread and even motivated Michael Stapelberg to use a fixed width font for Debian, even though the rendering engine he uses would happily support proportional fonts. Yours, Ingo
