Re: First post...

[tuxic]

Hi Oliver,

thank you for your welcomeing mail ! :)

I am very happy haveing found a place to talk about [gnt]?roff :) related 
things - these places are a little rare these days.

Currently I am using neatroff under GENTOO Linux.

I am collecting (general) documents about roff/troff/nroff to get
informations, which are not implememtation specific (things, which
should work for all implementation).

I found www.troff.org and some other places via internet searching
where I found the following documents:
* A_Typesetter_independent_TROFF (cstr97) by Brian W. Kerningham
* Grap — A Language for Typesetting Graphs Tutorial and User Manual by Jon L. 
Bentley and Brian W. Kernighan
* The groff version of the "–ME REFERENCE MANUAL" by Eric P. Allman*
  Is there any source for the "original" one?
* The groff version of "Writing Papers with GROFF using –me" by Eric P. Allman.
  Is there any source for the "original" one?
* PIC — A Graphics Language for Typesetting User Manual  by Brian W. Kernighan
* A TROFF Tutorial by Brian W. Kernighan
* Typing Documents on the UNIX System: Using the – ms Macros with Troff and 
Nroff by M. E. Lesk

Is there any document, which I miss, which will help a beginner in
things [nt]?roff to get started?
I prefer documents, which do not include specialities of special
implementations, since they will not work with other implementations
als long these enhancements are not common to all newer
implementations - for example the ability to run on Linux is such a
common enhancement - the original versions of the PDP*-ear will not
run on Linux :)

Cheers!
mcc


On 02/07 08:49, Oliver Corff wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am in no way entitled to say "welcome!" but I dare to do so because I was
> welcomed as well when I joined this group. According to my experience, how
> limited it may be, you can ask general questions about how to solve a specific
> typesetting with the (g)roff family of programs and helpers, but you'll also
> see very, very thorough investigations of algorith-related issues (and by far
> not limited to that) which may seem far-fetched for a beginner.
>  
> Though the group has a focus on the GNU version of roff, i.e. groff, the basic
> functionality of the "other" implementations (heirloom troff, to name just 
> one)
> rests on the same fundamentals. Thus it is never wrong to ask here.
>  
> Happy [gnt]?roff-ing!
>  
> Oliver.
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 07. Februar 2021 um 19:10 Uhr
> Von: tuxic@posteo.de
> An: groff@gnu.org
> Betreff: First post...
> Hi,
> 
> this is my first post to this mailing list.
> 
> I just started the journey into the "world of troff" - so I am
> a very beginner.
> 
> Is this mailing list the right place to post genral questions about
> "how to troff" or is this mailing for groff specific questions?
> 
> Cheers!
> mcc
> 
> 
>