Why is learning groff being made so difficult?
Hello, debian-users, Well, groff's manpages are ...interesting... right? So I would like to read the documents that came with the package in /usr/share/doc/groff, but I don't know how to display them correctly. The best solution I found was something like: groff -Tascii meintro.me | less which is still terrible to read (missing words, ugly spaces etc.) I feel like being told to learn encrypting by an encrypted manual :( Can someone help, me please? Thank you, Andreas
Re: Why is learning groff being made so difficult?
Hi: Try zless meintro.me or zless meintro.me.gz If you dont have zless, you will have to install it. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Hello, debian-users, Well, groff's manpages are ...interesting... right? So I would like to read the documents that came with the package in /usr/share/doc/groff, but I don't know how to display them correctly. The best solution I found was something like: groff -Tascii meintro.me | less which is still terrible to read (missing words, ugly spaces etc.) I feel like being told to learn encrypting by an encrypted manual :( Can someone help, me please? Thank you, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is learning groff being made so difficult?
Actually, no, try: zcat meintro.me | groff -me -Tascii | less which will actually translate it. If you're trying to learn groff, reading groff source probably won't help :) -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: Try zless meintro.me or zless meintro.me.gz If you dont have zless, you will have to install it. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Hello, debian-users, Well, groff's manpages are ...interesting... right? So I would like to read the documents that came with the package in /usr/share/doc/groff, but I don't know how to display them correctly. The best solution I found was something like: groff -Tascii meintro.me | less which is still terrible to read (missing words, ugly spaces etc.) I feel like being told to learn encrypting by an encrypted manual :( Can someone help, me please? Thank you, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is learning groff being made so difficult?
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:50:52PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Actually, no, try: zcat meintro.me | groff -me -Tascii | less which will actually translate it. If you're trying to learn groff, reading groff source probably won't help :) Yes! This works perfectly. I didn't even know how to invoke the macro... Thank you very much. Andreas
