From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 15 11:41:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06696 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06690 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA25956; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:41:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Kenneth R. Westerback" cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Troff Tutorial (usd:22) - hiding or not present In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 >