Re: Learning troff - where to start?

[Federico Lucifredi]

Hello Ingo,

> On Oct 14, 2020, at 9:06 AM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:
> [..]
> 
>> Interesting. As far as I can tell, the origin of that statement
>> is in man 7 groff_man:
>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man7/groff_man.7.html
> 
> That document says:
> 
>  DESCRIPTION
>  The man macros used to generate man pages with groff
>  were written by James Clark.
> 
> That is correct.
> 
> You are saying:
> 
>  For man pages, what you need is knowledge of the man macro package,
>  originally written by James Clark [...]
> 
> That is a blatant misrepresentation.

No misrepresentation is intended. Be nice. 

> 
> It is akin to talking about "the C programming language, invented
> by Richard M. Stallman, …"

I removed the “originally” bit, which I believe corrects the flaw (if I am 
reading you correctly). 

Best -F