 | | From: | Aaron | | Subject: | (g)troff tutorial .. | | Date: | 20 Nov 2004 08:33:28 -0800 |
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 | hi!
im a college student & am very much interested in learning troff (i
have gnu troff)
i hv read a few tutorials & tried to apply what i learnt & i am unable
to output a basic file w/ or w/o any formatting.
i am *really* confused
what i realized is that most tutorials assume you know the basics of
how a troff input-file starts, how to view a processed file etc. But i
dont!
can anyone guide me?
thx
aaron
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| | From: | Ralph Corderoy | | Subject: | Re: (g)troff tutorial .. | | Date: | Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:27:01 GMT |
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| Hi Aaron,
> i hv read a few tutorials & tried to apply what i learnt & i am unable
> to output a basic file w/ or w/o any formatting.
Tell us a little more. What operating system? Did you have to get
groff or was it already present? What command are you using and what
input are you giving it?
Here's an example on Unix.
$ ls /etc | groff -Tascii | head -3
adjtime alchemist aliases aliases.db amanda amandates amd.conf
amd.net anacrontab at.deny auto.master auto.misc bash_completion
bashrc cdrecord.conf cipe conf.linuxconf.OLD conf.linuxconf.rpm-
$
That shows the groff command is present and working.
We can help more with a little more information.
Cheers,
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Ralph Corderoy. http://inputplus.co.uk/ralph/ http://troff.org/
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