[bug #61900] ship groff-man-pages.pdf

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
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                 Summary: ship groff-man-pages.pdf
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Sun 23 Jan 2022 10:54:31 AM UTC
                Category: General
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: gbranden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Since the demise of bug #61266 in early October there has been no major
barrier to this, and now that we can get cleanly into and out of Swedish
localization tomfoolery for groff_mmse(7), there isn't a minor one either.

So maybe one of the nice things to do for groff 1.23.0 is commemorate (just
over) 50 years of the first Unix manual, a humble collection of man pages. 
That document, which can be found at
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html , weighs in at 194 pages,
including 4 pages of introduction, another four for a table of contents, and
another 11 of permuted index.  (It would have been 195 pages, but someone
removed Ossanna's copy of "ascii(VII)"--I imagine it taped to a wall above his
desk, though I don't know what that, or he, looked like.)

This manual weighs in at 380 pages, has no front matter, and packs many more
characters to a page.

It supplements, but does not quite supplant, our Texinfo manual.  See bug
#60061.






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