Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote in <20201013232627.gb24...@eureka.lemis.com>: |On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 at 22:49:03 +0200, J.-J. wrote: |> Le mardi 13 octobre 2020 à 14:41 +0200, Johann Höchtl a écrit : |>> * What would be a good starting point (tutorial) into troff and its |>> core principles? |>> |>> * What is the canonical documentation of troff all the existing |>> implementations seem to derive from and describe their deltas in |>> their respective documentation? |> |> Here is in my opinion the best book on the subject |> (and it's now FREE!) : |> |> https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/ | |An excellent book, and one that I have used a lot. But nobody can |claim that it's up-to-date (it predates groff), and there are many |features in groff that weren't in the troff version described. Isn't |it sad that nothing more modern is available?
Ha! Twenty years ago when my wonderful TeX package got lost and i had to rapidly implement something and decided due to frustration to do something entirely different i went to the local book store (and i still do not do such things over the net), and they could not offer just about anything. Solschenizyn, also. Later. All that before the advent of on-demand printing, however. I would point to the groff info manual, and the groff manual pages. It is a bit tough to get you going, but if you understand there are traps and page dimensions then this surely is a starter. Other than that you need to know what you want, anyway. Fonts are hard, device files are hard, the process separation is hard (and a show stopper), but then there is lout and the lua- implemented thing which appears to be really great and cool, unfortunately i have forgotten the name of it. Ralph surely knows that. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
