Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:41:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Troff Tutorial (usd:22) - hiding or not present Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970515113830.25895A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970514201916.2682A-100000@Pkrw.tcn.net>
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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Kenneth R. Westerback wrote: > I am interested in poking about in the documentation for FreeBSD, learning > how it is all generated. Eventually DocBook, etc. but > it seems a lot is in troff (and from postings here DocBook -> troff seems > to be preferred) and I can't seem to find any introductory material on > troff. > > Is the document "A Troff Tutorial (usd:22)" as mentioned in > /usr/share/doc/usd/contents.ascii.gz installed somewhere? Not to mention > other documents from the BSD distribution. If not part of the FreeBSD > distribution is the document available for downloading/printing anywhere? > Or do I have to buy the O'Reilly 4.4BSD documents. Alternatively is there > another Troff document/book that is recommended? The referenced troff tutorial doesn't seem to be on my installation of 2.2R either. I found a troff tutorial (by searching with altavista, as I recall) at http://csdeca.cs.missouri.edu/~manager/LAB/troff.html. I also found another one that seems to be help for students on a particular system; I'll mail you that one if you want it. That was about it. Annelise > > ---- Ken >
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