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 vi manual I wrote in 1987 that > went to trade press in 1990.
It is a shame your Vi guide is out of print and costs so much now. > My advice for learning troff/groff is to take an > uncommented macro package, add comprehensive com- > ments about how every line works, and what it > does. > > Do that, and you'll have a lot of understanding > that's hard to get otherwise. Thanks for the advice. I had already tried to do that but was daunted by the sheer amount of work. Now that I feel a bit more at home with Groff, maybe I will return to it, or just try to create my own "tutorial" macro package using other macros as a source of techniques and common practices. Anton
