idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (08/17/89)
From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen>
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (08/17/89)
From: Steve Hayman <sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> You really should install xtroff. It's a great tool. xtroff interprets ditroff output and displays the results on your screen, using its own various fonts. The process is fast, and you can even tell xtroff what command was used to produce the ditroff output. So, you're editing away on the troff source in one xterm window with xtroff sitting in another window; write out your current version of the document, move the cursor to the xtroff window and type "r", and it re-runs the troff command, and shows you the updated image. It's smart enough to skip ahead to the page you were just looking at, so you can always concentrate on page 7 or whatever without having to step forward from page 1 each time the document changes. I have only been using this program for a few days (writing a IUnix guide for incoming grad students) , but I can't imagine doing any major troff work without it. If I'd had a program like this when I was finishing my masters essay, I really think I would have been done at least a month sooner.
dgharriss@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Dermot G. Harriss) (08/18/89)
In article <11107@watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu writes: >From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen> me, for one.