Re: Learning troff - where to start?

[Wim Stockman]

maybe you can start by reading the book.
it has new life on github.
https://github.com/larrykollar/Unix-Text-Processing

Op wo 21 okt. 2020 om 21:47 schreef Johann Höchtl <johann.hoechtl@gmail.com
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> On 19.10.20 14:14, Johann Höchtl wrote:
> >
> > On 15.10.20 16:37, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
> >> To fetch for ideas on how to do this or that, maybe can I also point
> >> to my macros, as they'll work with neatroff too, and implement a lot
> >> of things: https://github.com/pjfichet/utmac/
> >>
> >
> > I installed utmac by downloading it and copying all .tmac - files into
> > netaroff's tmac directory.
> >
> > Then I copied para.tr and lorem.tr into the demo directory of neatroff
> > and executed:
> >
> >
> > ../neatroff/roff  -mu-fonts -mus para.tr | ../neatpost/pdf -pa4 >
> out.pdf
> >
> >
> > (also tried for curiosity with muh and mul)
> >
> >
> > That creates a workable pdf but produces the following error:
> >
> >
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-001>
> > neatroff: failed to mount <f-000>
> >
> >
> > I suspect I have missing fonts or am I missing another utmac - macro
> > inclusion?
> >
> >
> Your help would be very appreciated. BTW How comes that section headings
> work as a forward reference? Can I move with utmac the complete TOC to
> the frontmatter without using psutils or the likes?
>
>
> > Best, Johann
> >
> >> Hoping that helps!
> >> Pierre-Jean.
> >>
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