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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001883 | 1003.1(2024)/Issue8 | Shell and Utilities | public | 2024-12-04 22:58 | 2024-12-05 17:09 |
| Reporter | Love4Boobies | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | Comment | Type | Enhancement Request |
| Status | Closed | Resolution | Rejected | ||
| Name | Bogdan Barbu | ||||
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| Section | troff | ||||
| Page Number | N/A | ||||
| Line Number | N/A | ||||
| Interp Status | --- | ||||
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| Summary | 0001883: Standardization of troff | ||||
| Description | troff has been an integral part of Unix since the early days, widely used for typesetting and document preparation. Most POSIX-compliant systems already include troff or its derivatives (e.g., groff), making it a de facto standard in practice. A standardized troff would ensure portability of documents and scripts across POSIX-compliant systems. Including it in POSIX would formalize its behavior, reducing fragmentation between implementation. It's well-documented, stable, and has decades of community experience, making it a low-risk candidate for standardization. Its use with other standard tools (e.g., sed, awk) complements the UNIX philosophy of modularity. One use case for troff would be to produce man pages. POSIX defines all the tools required to write portable software and to read manuals but no portable way to create man pages. I'm also pretty sure the Austin Group uses it :) | ||||
| Desired Action | Before making a more formal proposal, it should be discussed whether this is outside the scope of POSIX or not. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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> One use case for troff would be to produce man pages. ... I'm also pretty sure the Austin Group uses it :) Unless they use mandoc: https://mandoc.bsd.lv |
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Although it would be in scope, we do not know of a group that would be willing to spend the time needed to set up, sponsor, and lead an nroff/troff working group to prepare a specification for these utilities. Without the output of such a group being available to standardize, we do not believe that we can accept a proposal to add these utilities to the standard. If you do have a complete specification that is ready to be standardized, please submit a separate bug report for consideration. Until a complete specification is available, this bug is rejected. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2024-12-04 22:58 | Love4Boobies | New Issue | |
| 2024-12-04 22:58 | Love4Boobies | Name | => Bogdan Barbu |
| 2024-12-04 22:58 | Love4Boobies | Section | => troff |
| 2024-12-04 22:58 | Love4Boobies | Page Number | => N/A |
| 2024-12-04 22:58 | Love4Boobies | Line Number | => N/A |
| 2024-12-04 23:08 | Guy Harris | Note Added: 0006983 | |
| 2024-12-05 17:09 | Don Cragun | Interp Status | => --- |
| 2024-12-05 17:09 | Don Cragun | Note Added: 0006990 | |
| 2024-12-05 17:09 | Don Cragun | Status | New => Closed |
| 2024-12-05 17:09 | Don Cragun | Resolution | Open => Rejected |
