Hi Johann, If you confined yourself to writing man pages, you do not need to learn the whole of Troff, and you can limit yourself to a more friendly subset — and copying from the many examples found on a *nix system surely helps ;-)
For man page writing, I collected the available resources in this blog post a while ago — happy to hear about new resources. https://f2.svbtle.com/writing-man-pages Best-F > On Oct 13, 2020, at 8:41 AM, Johann Höchtl <johann.hoec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am just a casual dabbler who is somehow fascinated by text processing > > > I am using neatroff - It seems to be the most actively developed and has some > nice modern features like paragraph-at-once formatting and utf8 support out > of the box. > > > Having said that, it seems that all troff implementations like plan9 troff or > groff itself, seem to have no canonical, "all-encontained" documentation. All > seems to derive from .. ? > > > So my question is: > > * What would be a good starting point (tutorial) into troff and its core > principles? > > * What is the canonical documentation of troff all the existing > implementations seem to derive from and describe their deltas in their > respective documentation? > > > Thank you! > > > >
