Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?

2018-04-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks, Ingo, for that very informative reply. I did just start reading the mdoc man page after sending that mail. Thanks for the additional resources. I shall check them out as I continue on with this aspect of the project. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all po

Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?

2018-04-15 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Nate, Nate Bargmann wrote on Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 04:17:59PM -0500: > I have long been involved with a project that has lacked good > documentation for nearly all of its existence. We've had documentation, > but it isn't in a good format for generating man, HTML, or PDF versions. [...] > Afte

[groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?

2018-04-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
I have long been involved with a project that has lacked good documentation for nearly all of its existence. We've had documentation, but it isn't in a good format for generating man, HTML, or PDF versions. Long ago I started with Docbook and then that got to a point no one else would touch it an

[groff] [Utroff] Utmac ported to neatroff

2018-04-15 Thread Pierre-Jean Fichet
Hello alls, I am pleased to announce you that my macro set Utmac has been ported to Neatroff. And indeed, I must admit it is a pleasure to work with Neatroff! For years, I was using Heirloom Troff, for its ability to format paragraphs at once. Neatroff does that too, in a much more transparent ma