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- This is awf, the Amazingly Workable Formatter -- a "nroff -man" or
- (subset) "nroff -ms" clone written entirely in (old) awk.
-
- It is slow and has many restrictions, but does a decent job on most
- manual pages and simple -ms documents, and isn't subject to AT&T's
- brain-damaged licensing that denies many System V users any text
- formatter at all. It is also a text formatter that is simple enough
- to be tinkered with, for people who want to experiment.
-
- Type "make r" to run a regression test, formatting the manual page
- (awf.1) and comparing it to a preformatted copy (awf.1.out). Type
- "make install" to install it. Pathnames may need changing.
-
- I don't know whether awf will run on 16-bit machines. Data requirements
- are modest, but I fear the programs are probably big enough to run awk
- out of space.
-
- I can't believe I really wrote this.
-
- Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
- henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
- 13 July 1990
-