Re: Learning troff - where to start?

[Federico Lucifredi]

Hi Johann,
  If you confined yourself to writing man pages, you do not need to learn the 
whole of Troff, and you can limit yourself to a more friendly subset — and 
copying from the many examples found on a *nix system surely helps ;-)

  For man page writing, I collected the available resources in this blog post a 
while ago — happy to hear about new resources.

https://f2.svbtle.com/writing-man-pages

Best-F

> On Oct 13, 2020, at 8:41 AM, Johann Höchtl <johann.hoechtl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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> 
> 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?
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> 
> Thank you!
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