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Finally… a Man Page for Life https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #LinuxHacks #troff #life #roff #man

Finally… a Man Page for Life https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #LinuxHacks #troff #life #roff #man

Finally… a Man Page for Life https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #LinuxHacks #troff #life #roff #man

Finally… a Man Page for Life - How often have you wished to have an instruction manual — or, at least, a Unix man... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #linuxhacks #troff #life #roff #man

Finally… a Man Page for Life - How often have you wished to have an instruction manual — or, at least, a Unix man... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #linuxhacks #troff #life #roff #man

Finally… a Man Page for Life - How often have you wished to have an instruction manual — or, at least, a Unix man... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #linuxhacks #troff #life #roff #man

Finally… a Man Page for Life - How often have you wished to have an instruction manual — or, at least, a Unix man... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #linuxhacks #troff #life #roff #man

Finally… a Man Page for Life - How often have you wished to have an instruction manual — or, at least, a Unix man... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/15/finally-a-man-page-for-life/ #linuxhacks #troff #life #roff #man

Custom parser, an unholly aliance of #roff and #markdown for #batch processing from #stdin more or less works!

Time to up the game 😼

@mos_8502 Probably because (even 😏) tex is more readable (and, of course, more verbose) 😉

The only thing that still forces you to use (a limited subset of) #roff (with some macro package) is authoring manpages that should work "everywhere" (read, systems without #mandoc support) 😉

Of course, still an interesting thing to cover. I guess "power users" (having to typeset stuff a lot) would actually like the pretty terse syntax.

Any groff users out there? How would you compare it to LateX?

#linux #roff #groff

@robpike I dimly remember that I found in some UNIX™ manuals that there was even #roff macro, which did exactly that.

Is there a cross-platform way to add a horizontal rule/page-separator to a man page. Must be supported by groff, nroff, troff, and BSD's roff.
#roff #groff #nroff #troff #manpage #manpages

Ich glaube ich bin gerade von dem Rabbit-Hole #roff noch tiefer in Grafiken mit #pic reingefallen. :/
Aber das ist doch GNU und voll toll :P

@ju Goes for #roff or #troff as well, even BWK recommended this back then:

> Most documents go through several versions (always more than you expected) before they are finally finished. Accordingly, you should do whatever possible to make the job of changing them easy.
>
> First, when you do the purely mechanical operations of typing, type so subsequent editing will be easy. Start each sentence on a new line. Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than randomly. Since most people change documents by rewriting phrases and adding, deleting and rearranging sentences, these precautions simplify any editing you have to do later.

This has even recently been rediscovered by Brandon Rhodes and Mattt culminating sembr.org.

I've prepared basically all my docs since I started LaTeX in 9th class like this. Such a life saver.

This is actually the problem that led me to porting cawf to RISC OS in the first place. I thought I could just pull file.1 from the source, run it through a local nroff, and be done

but there doesnt seem to be a modern-ish *roff ported to 32bit RISC OS... (hence cawf)

and file.1 has to be built anyway...

and even after i got a file.1 cawf can't handle the newer -man or -mdoc macros it uses anyway! (i forget which its wrtiien in)

#riscOS #cawf #file #roff