Plan 9 in the home... an interesting experiment. (I am the only one in
my home who uses it.) Enjoy!
My message contains references to files in /n/sources/contrib. When
you get your internet up in Plan 9, use
9fs sources
to gain access to this folder. PostScript and PDF files can be seen
with page. If a program is distributed as source code and a file
"mkfile", type
mk install
to build and install. Some of us have switched to Federico Benavento's
contrib system. To install it, run
/n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib
On Apr 14, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Jim Habegger wrote:
Meanwhile, does anyone have
any suggestions about learning to use Plan 9 for home office,
troff for document processing and presentations. A troff document is a
text file containing text and commands, like so:
.PP
Hey there!
This is troff.
.B "I have bold text" .
The main troff documentation is /sys/doc/troff.ps, but a tutorial is a
better bet. Take a look at http://www.troff.org/papers.html.
To integrate a picture, you will first need to convert that picture
file into a postscript file:
lp -dstdout -pgifpost file.gif > file.ps
lp -dstdout -pjpgpost file.jpg > file.ps
Then look up the mpictures macro set. You can have more than one macro
set:
troff -ms -mpictures cool.ms
Converting to PDF:
troff -ms -mpictures cool.ms | dpost -f | ps2pdf > cool.pdf
There are several specialized slideshow packages.
* the archaic mv macro set included with Plan 9 (doc: /n/sources/
contrib/pietro/mv.pdf).
* Uriel's slides scripts (/n/sources/contrib/uriel/slides/)
* Russ Cox's talk scripts (/n/sources/contrib/rsc/talk/)
Plan 9 doesn't have:
multimedia
Each picture type has a program for viewing it, named after the file
extension (png, jpg, etc.); page can be used to view multiple pictures
at once.
juke(6) for how to go about playing music.
I don't think there are video players.
and Internet socializing,
There are IRC clients in /n/sources/contrib and an AIM client at /n/
sources/contrib/leitec/bsflite/. I don't think you can use websites
with Plan 9 unless everything is done server-side. The primary web
browser is abaco:
contrib/install fgb/abaco
and then to learn more about
networking and distributed systems?
Read the files in /sys/doc.
