On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 11:12:26 +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I do, notably the PostScript display requests.
If you mean the
\X'ps: file ....'
OK. Point taken although older troff could handle that also from
memory. But it is so long ago, I cannot remember how.
Yes, that's the way it is for me too. I wrote the macros about 25
years ago for "The Complete FreeBSD", and I haven't looked at them in
over 10 years. I did today, and I found it a real rat's nest of
documentation. Strangely the macro code was much more readable. But
that brings us back to where we came in: where is there
well-structured documentation for the current groff?
Agreed. It is not there.
Maybe the old O'Reilly book needs a revision?
Would O'Reilly release the source code of the book so it could be updated?
I wrote a book on how to write reports using troff with MM. I then started
writing my own book in 1985 on Troff and the various preprocessors but as
soon as I saw UTP, gave up.
I liked 'lout'. Very clean. Jeffrey Kingstonm was just down the road from
the office. Smart guy.
Regards - Damian
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