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


From: ZEN
Subject: Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:05:30 +0100
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I am afraid it is at home, I am in Cornwall at the moment, will send it to you 
next week.


On 16 April 2018 18:57:22 BST, John Gardner <address@hidden> wrote:
>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
>>
>>

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