On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:50:15 +0000, pwnedomina wrote: > On 11-06-2012 23:40, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, i pwn<pwnedom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> hi, sometime ago i asked a question about how to format a text, some people > >> told me to use groff, but i would like to know how was file > >> http://ipwn.altervista.org/files/Stoll,%20Clifford%20-%20The%20Cuckoo%27s%20Egg.txt > >> fomatted. > >> thanks in advance. > > Most probably nroff / groff > > > > Take a look at the info from the authoring tools at rfceditor: > > > > http://www.rfc-editor.org/formatting.html > > > *formatted. > i've downloaded NroffEdit but when i open the ASCII text i want to > convert/format, it says "Not a valid nroff I-D" > what should i do?
Erm, you did open the output file (as pointed to), _not_ the source file? You're trying to "edit text in a document you've scanned". :-) The output text can be edited with any text editor (vi, emacs, joe, mcedit, whichever is your favourite), but it will be kept in this format as it _has been_ generated that way (past tense). In order to change formatting, you need the SOURCE file with the macros. (Compare: HTML files rendered by browser: output looks different than input; to change it, you need to edit the HTML source.) You can compare that to editing a man page: You need the page's source (like found in /usr/src/share/examples/mdoc/example.1). The text's SOURCE file would have looked similarly I assume. THAT is the input format you need for the "NroffEdit" WYSIWYG "text" editor. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"