Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

2011-08-02 Thread Anton Shepelev
Clarke Echols: > I was working on a troff/nroff tutorial at HP back > in 1988, but got pulled off of it to handle the > HP-UX Reference (man pages) for four years. The > version that got produced was a cut-down version > for nroff only, and it never hit the bookstore > market like the

Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

2011-08-02 Thread Anton Shepelev
Ingo Schwarze: > > From my own experince, the existing packages are > > much stronger coupled with Groff and cannot be > > used without good understanding of Groff itself. > > I didn't try mom though. > > Maybe you didn't try mdoc(7), either - or only > considered general purpose packages

Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

2011-08-02 Thread Anton Shepelev
Doug McIlroy: > This thread has mentioned Kernighan's troff tuto- > rial Here's where to get it: > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html > > Of course it lacks the modest, but very helpful, > groff extensions, but it'sa great base document. > I would think Brian would welcome an u

Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

2011-08-02 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> This thread has mentioned Kernighan's troff tutorial > http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html > Of course it lacks the modest, but very helpful, > groff extensions, but it's a great base document. There's also a useful tutorial on writing a simple general-purpose macro package at the end o