Ersin Akinci wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I get the feeling this is going to be a RTFM question, but I haven't >been able to find a straight answer anywhere...What exactly is the >DESC file? When I type in "groff" on my Debian testing box all it > > > Stating the obvious, and despite all good answers that you have received already , no-one has answered *what is a DESC file* yet. You see, groff is a complex beast where you have a front end that includes groff and the preprocessors, a middle-way processor that does the real typesetting (namely troff) and a series of post processors, each targeting a different output device, from text formatted for console display (emulating nroff, which groff doesn't have) to HTML, to PostScript and several more. Each post processor has different features and tunable parameters, including different fonts and ways to describe the dimension of a printer page. These parameters are described in DESC files.
I get the feeling from how you expressed your ideas, that you are very new to g/troff. I highly recommend you read the open source version of "Unix Text Processing" available at <http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/> and with the resources and documentation at <http://troff.org/>. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
