rob@xyzoom.info.com (Rob Lingelbach) (04/14/91)
I recently installed groff & gtroff versions 1.0, and would like to
know how they differ from nroff and troff; the man page is inscrutable
on this. I have a book on Unix text processing that will teach me
nroff, but I don't know how much is common ground between it and groff.
Can anyone clarify this for me?
Thanks.
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--------"'Tis pride that pulls the country down" (Shakespeare)-------dawes@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) (04/14/91)
In article <194@xyzoom.UUCP> rob@xyzoom.info.com (Rob Lingelbach) writes: >I recently installed groff & gtroff versions 1.0, and would like to >know how they differ from nroff and troff; the man page is inscrutable >on this. I have a book on Unix text processing that will teach me >nroff, but I don't know how much is common ground between it and groff. >Can anyone clarify this for me? groff/gtroff can handle most nroff/troff source. There is a compatibility flag to get around a couple of incompatibilities. The only problem is that not all of the common macro packages are supplied with groff. The man page for gtroff describes features not in troff, so a book on unix text processing together with the man page should be all you need. I don't think the gtroff man page is at all incsrutable on the differences -- that is precisely what 90% of the 20 page man "page" is about. David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@suphys.physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------