On Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:03:26 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2018-11-29T00:25:05+0000, Deri wrote: > > I'm interested in the groff book which is currently generated from the > > texinfo document. I have done some work which merges texinfo source > > and several man pages to produce an indexed pdf. It is not ready for > > this release, but I'm hoping to get it accepted for the next. > > That sounds terrific! I'm very much looking forward to that. > > The Texinfo manual is far too easy to overlook (I've certainly been > guilty of it) partly because the Texinfo ecosystem itself is not very > healthy. Last I checked (years ago), the texinfo development mailing > list was openly discussing its options for winding up the project. It's > just not very ergonomic for anyone except militant Emacs partisans, and > pinfo, the info browser with key bindings friendly to mere mortals, is > no longer actively maintained either, as I understand it. > > On top of that, our build does not even generate the manual in TeX form. > Which makes _perfect_ sense from a bootstrapping perspective--one > shouldn't need one typesetting system to build the other--but I suspect > it is in part responsible for the FSF's decision to never offer printed > copies of it. (Also, one suspects that groff was officially intended to > be nothing but a stopgap while the world migrated to > TeX/Info/Emacs/Hurd.) > > It sounds like what you're working on can lead us to set a nice, > ecumenical example. > > "make doc_all" is pretty noisy with warnings; we should try to get that > cleaned up. > > Regards, > Branden
You can get a preview of what I have done by downloading the groff book here:- http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/groff_book.pdf If you are interested in the process you can find the source here:- http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/groff_book.tgz This is all produced by groff (no TeX). Cheers Deri
