Hi Federico, > While we are (slightly) digressing, may I ask the broader group, what > are the best current tutorials for Groff? > > Most of the material I know of is... rather dated. Not necessarily > bad, but not very recent either - and not very concise, either. What > do you point to get new users started? What’s the current favorite > resource?
I still like Ossanna/Kernighan's CSTR #54, _Nroff/Troff User's Manual_, http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz or http://troff.org/54.pdf. It's clear and concise but covers a lot of ground; typical of Kernighan's writing IMO. Then there's Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly's _Unix Text Processing_. http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/ Given they were using troff to produce their books, and continued to use groff for a long time to do the production even when they moved to XML mark-up, they knew the subject. Cheers, Ralph.
