Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

[Deri]

On Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:03:26 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2018-11-29T00:25:05+0000, Deri wrote:
> > I'm interested in the groff book which is currently generated from the
> > texinfo document. I have done some work which merges texinfo source
> > and several man pages to produce an indexed pdf. It is not ready for
> > this release, but I'm hoping to get it accepted for the next.
> 
> That sounds terrific!  I'm very much looking forward to that.
> 
> The Texinfo manual is far too easy to overlook (I've certainly been
> guilty of it) partly because the Texinfo ecosystem itself is not very
> healthy.  Last I checked (years ago), the texinfo development mailing
> list was openly discussing its options for winding up the project.  It's
> just not very ergonomic for anyone except militant Emacs partisans, and
> pinfo, the info browser with key bindings friendly to mere mortals, is
> no longer actively maintained either, as I understand it.
> 
> On top of that, our build does not even generate the manual in TeX form.
> Which makes _perfect_ sense from a bootstrapping perspective--one
> shouldn't need one typesetting system to build the other--but I suspect
> it is in part responsible for the FSF's decision to never offer printed
> copies of it.  (Also, one suspects that groff was officially intended to
> be nothing but a stopgap while the world migrated to
> TeX/Info/Emacs/Hurd.)
> 
> It sounds like what you're working on can lead us to set a nice,
> ecumenical example.
> 
> "make doc_all" is pretty noisy with warnings; we should try to get that
> cleaned up.
> 
> Regards,
> Branden

You can get a preview of what I have done by downloading the groff book here:-

http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/groff_book.pdf

If you are interested in the process you can find the source here:-

http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/groff_book.tgz

This is all produced by groff (no TeX).

Cheers 

Deri