Re: [Groff] Introduction

[Miklos Somogyi]

On 19/10/2005, at 11:23 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > For me a much better documentation would be enough, [...]
>
> Have you actually looked at groff.texinfo?  A pdf-Version can be found 
> at
>
>   http://groff.ffii.org/groff/groff-1.19.2.pdf
>
> Comments (and patches!) to improve this are highly welcome.
>
>
>     Werner

Thanks for the pdf. I had a look at the previous version a while ago 
but a China tour
rudely interrupted my studies of it :-)
I hope that soon I'll be back to learning the differences from old 
troff and then I'll send you comments.
Certainly I would like to see a groff manual written in groff, with 
plenty of colour and graphics.

Not for colour and graphics sake, but colour can help with "at a 
glance"-type organization
and technical examples can show that this thing is no  less than Word 
but more.
Just if you could increase the 40 kB posting limit a bit, please.

It is a nice little storm you managed to stir up with editors, etc. 
I've learned a lot, got
a few ideas and might just buy X-keys to work with vi to insert groff 
into documents...
It is good that these comments were not cut-off 'cause not that closely 
related to groff.

Another interesting thing was the memories of typesetters etc. Would 
like to see a statistics re
how young on this list we are. Mine youngness is not secret: 70. 
Actually one less, but when I say
the word, people just smile: "Oh, yeah..."

Miklos