Re: [Groff] troff(1) and info

[Richard Loken]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Bernd Warken wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:26:31AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 
> > As long as groff.texinfo isn't finished,

> So to use groff you always need the old-fashioned troff docu of the 1970's.
> And you're fucqing-up the man page system, being the most famous 
> application of groff.

The differances are minor for most day to day mundane uses of groff.

I do all my roffing with the docs from the 1970's so they still serve even
with the differances that are being debated in this thread.  For years I 
didn't think that those documents could be found except in the old books that
I hoarded on my shelves but as I move closer to groff and farther from troff
(as it was offered with 4.*bsd etc) I have found that those docs can be found
in electronic form and used.  If there is something better for getting work
done in a hurry than those old tutorials and reference docs then I would
really like to see it.  Is there?

And the tradition continues.  My kids use groff to write their essays at 
school and they have given up any notions they may have had about my providing
them with Micro$oft Word.
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   Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS  
   Athabasca University
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