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