Re: Learning troff - where to start?

[Johann Höchtl]

On 19.10.20 14:14, Johann Höchtl wrote:
> On 15.10.20 16:37, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
> > To fetch for ideas on how to do this or that, maybe can I also point
> > to my macros, as they'll work with neatroff too, and implement a lot
> > of things: https://github.com/pjfichet/utmac/
>
> I installed utmac by downloading it and copying all .tmac - files into 
> netaroff's tmac directory.
>
> Then I copied para.tr and lorem.tr into the demo directory of neatroff 
> and executed:
>
>
> ../neatroff/roff  -mu-fonts -mus para.tr | ../neatpost/pdf -pa4 > out.pdf
>
>
> (also tried for curiosity with muh and mul)
>
>
> That creates a workable pdf but produces the following error:
>
>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
>
>
> I suspect I have missing fonts or am I missing another utmac - macro 
> inclusion?
Your help would be very appreciated. BTW How comes that section headings 
work as a forward reference? Can I move with utmac the complete TOC to 
the frontmatter without using psutils or the likes?


> Best, Johann
>
> > Hoping that helps!
> > Pierre-Jean.