No! I don't want a video tute on troff. Just a video of you typing in the troff. It would certainly be better to look at then your idea of how plan9 works.
brucee On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Dan Cross wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Bruce Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> I'd like to see a you tube video of the troff. >>> >>> Dude, don't tempt me. When (if?) I (ever?) get off of active duty, I >>> might do a youtube video on troff. I know that's not quite what you >>> were saying, but it'd be hilarious. >>> >>> - Dan C. >>> >>> (ps- Bruce, let me know when you'll be stateside again.) >>> >> >> If I made it, it wouldn't be on youtube (I don't want to give up my >> rights to the video). But I would definitely give it to you, the groff >> guys, and the Heirloom guys. >> >> How is this to start: >> >> "This video will teach you troff. What is troff? troff is a document >> preparation system, much like TeX or Microsoft Word. troff is one of >> the first of these systems to support fonts in italic and drawing on >> the page. It was developed by the late Joe Ossanna and is the latest >> and newest in a long line of document programs. >> troff is most like TeX in that the document is a text file containing >> words with formatting commands mixed in. This means you'll have to get >> used to the command line. >> Three primary versions of troff are used today. The official version, >> based of Ossanna's work, is in the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating >> system. The most common one is groff, a version made for the GNU >> project. There is also Heirloom troff, based off the ones by >> OpenSolaris. All three are free software. >> So as you can see, troff is a Unix tool. But if you are on Windows, >> don't despair: there are ports of these tools to Windows. I will be >> running Plan 9 for my demo. >> >> Let's start by creating a simple document. Create a new text file: >> >> > first_troff >> >> and edit it: >> >> acme first_troff >> >> Now let's type a few words: >> >> hello, world >> >> Save your work. In my case, I middle-click the Put at the top. >> Now comes the fun part. In Plan 9, to preview the document, you say >> >> troff first_troff | proof >> >> or >> >> troff first_troff | page >> >> I will use page. With GNU, you convert to a PostScript file and open >> it with an image viewer: >> >> troff first_troff | grops > first_troff.ps >> >> (Heirloom goes here.)" > > > A video seems like a rather foolish place to try and explain troff, > since the whole process is a lot of text input and a couple commands. > There exist plenty of documents on writing troff AND they avoid the > cutesy "Ok now let's do this... here's what I did... Now the fun > part" form. > > > John > > >
