Mike Bianchi <mbian...@foveal.com> wrote: > What is missing is a Front Door that leads you gently into the Castle, teaches > you the way through the rooms, closets and pantries, so you can live > comfortably there with what is present. Then (and only then) should you be > led > down into the basement and shown how the electric, water, heat and sewage > utilities work. Finally you should go into the workshop and start building > your own mechanisms. > > I worry that *roff is an old technology loved only by old people. > It won't survive much longer if it isn't loved by people much younger than me.
Well, I love *roff and I'm much younger than you since I was not born when you used it for the first time in the mid-1970s. ;) But, I don't think that *roff is difficult to use, since one accepts it's not a wysiwyg text processor. I also don't think that the troff language is difficult to learn - It seems to me that learning troff is something like learning bash. > What could I do about that? A tutorial with some exercises and examples could probably help new users to discover the troff language. It was missing to me when I learned troff, about one year ago. I hope to may write one - one day... Pierre-Jean.
