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

[John Gardner]

Deri, that book looks like a fantastic example or something I can show to
demonstrate the capability of my Troff Renderer (which is currently blocked
on more mathematical-related nonsense...Do you have the Roff source for
that book, perchance?


On 17 April 2018 at 03:33, <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Monday, 16 April 2018 00:14:05 BST Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > 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
>
>
> i have been looking at merging the groff.texi file and various groff man
> pages
> into one compendium pdf. The program which does the merging is still
> rather
> beta, and probably would have problems with other texinfo files, but you
> can
> view an example of the current state at:-
>
> http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/groff_book.pdf
>
> Chapter 6 (Preprocessors) is largely man pages. The pdf is built using
> groff.
>
> Is this the sort of thing you were envisaging.
>
> I am currently on holiday so minimal email.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
>
>