Hi Oliver, thank you for your welcomeing mail ! :)
I am very happy haveing found a place to talk about [gnt]?roff :) related things - these places are a little rare these days. Currently I am using neatroff under GENTOO Linux. I am collecting (general) documents about roff/troff/nroff to get informations, which are not implememtation specific (things, which should work for all implementation). I found www.troff.org and some other places via internet searching where I found the following documents: * A_Typesetter_independent_TROFF (cstr97) by Brian W. Kerningham * Grap — A Language for Typesetting Graphs Tutorial and User Manual by Jon L. Bentley and Brian W. Kernighan * The groff version of the "–ME REFERENCE MANUAL" by Eric P. Allman* Is there any source for the "original" one? * The groff version of "Writing Papers with GROFF using –me" by Eric P. Allman. Is there any source for the "original" one? * PIC — A Graphics Language for Typesetting User Manual by Brian W. Kernighan * A TROFF Tutorial by Brian W. Kernighan * Typing Documents on the UNIX System: Using the – ms Macros with Troff and Nroff by M. E. Lesk Is there any document, which I miss, which will help a beginner in things [nt]?roff to get started? I prefer documents, which do not include specialities of special implementations, since they will not work with other implementations als long these enhancements are not common to all newer implementations - for example the ability to run on Linux is such a common enhancement - the original versions of the PDP*-ear will not run on Linux :) Cheers! mcc On 02/07 08:49, Oliver Corff wrote: > Hi, > > I am in no way entitled to say "welcome!" but I dare to do so because I was > welcomed as well when I joined this group. According to my experience, how > limited it may be, you can ask general questions about how to solve a specific > typesetting with the (g)roff family of programs and helpers, but you'll also > see very, very thorough investigations of algorith-related issues (and by far > not limited to that) which may seem far-fetched for a beginner. > > Though the group has a focus on the GNU version of roff, i.e. groff, the basic > functionality of the "other" implementations (heirloom troff, to name just > one) > rests on the same fundamentals. Thus it is never wrong to ask here. > > Happy [gnt]?roff-ing! > > Oliver. > > > > > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 07. Februar 2021 um 19:10 Uhr > Von: tu...@posteo.de > An: groff@gnu.org > Betreff: First post... > Hi, > > this is my first post to this mailing list. > > I just started the journey into the "world of troff" - so I am > a very beginner. > > Is this mailing list the right place to post genral questions about > "how to troff" or is this mailing for groff specific questions? > > Cheers! > mcc > > >
