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

[John Gardner]

That would be excellent, thank you! =) I've included first-class support
for your gropdf macros which send device-specific commands in the
post-processing phase ... still blocked on an issue involving
panning-and-zooming (if you zoom in and the top-two corners of a page
extend past the top-left corner of the screen... well, you can't just
scroll into -345cms looking for where the mangified content went... :(

On 17 April 2018 at 04:05, ZEN <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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