Re: Why is learning groff being made so difficult?

[Andrew Perrin <aperrin@socrates.berkeley.edu>]

Actually, no, try:

zcat meintro.me | groff -me -Tascii | less

which will actually translate it. If you're trying to learn groff, reading
groff source probably won't help :)

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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology  
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:

> Hi:
>   Try zless meintro.me  or zless meintro.me.gz
> 
> If you dont have zless, you will have to install it.
> 
> Sebastian Canagaratna
> Department of Chemistry
> Ohio Northern University
> Ada, OH 45810
>   
> 
> > Hello, debian-users,
> > 
> > Well, groff's manpages are ...interesting... right?
> > 
> > So I would like to read the documents that came with the package
> > in /usr/share/doc/groff, but I don't know how to display them correctly.
> > 
> > The best solution I found was something like:
> > 
> >     groff -Tascii meintro.me | less
> > 
> > which is still terrible to read (missing words, ugly spaces etc.)
> > 
> > I feel like being told to learn encrypting by an encrypted manual :(
> > Can someone help, me please?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Andreas
> > 
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