Re: Learning troff - where to start?

[J.-J.]

Hi,

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Le mardi 13 octobre 2020 à 14:41 +0200, Johann Höchtl a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I am just a casual dabbler who is somehow fascinated by text
> processing
> 
> 
> I am using neatroff - It seems to be the most actively developed and
> has 
> some nice modern features like paragraph-at-once formatting and utf8 
> support out of the box.
> 
> 
> Having said that, it seems that all troff implementations like plan9 
> troff or groff itself, seem to have no canonical, "all-encontained" 
> documentation. All seems to derive from .. ?
> 
> 
> So my question is:
> 
> * 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?
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> 
>