Re: [9front] [NOOB ALERT] Actually using 9front to write things

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>]

Hello again,

04.02.2022 21:41:32 Alexander Shendi <Alexander.Shendi@web.de>:

> Hi,
>
> So I've sysupdated and recompiled the system for amd64 and 386. I have 
> also compiled minischeme and run some of my scheme programs from 
> OpenBSD.
>
> Now I need to write things (mainly letters conforming to the german 
> "dinbrief" standard). I guess the tool of choice is troff(1). Is there 
> a good intro or example available? I read 
> <http://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/03/0/>, but the linked 
> repositories aren't available anymore.

I wrote most of my documents in din A4, and I also needed to learn the 
progress.

First of all, you need to tell your troff system what's the output of 
your page. This is the line length and the length of your body. Troff 
doesn't really know about the physical paper size, so you don't need to 
use it here.

This will be handled using the postscript converters, eg ps2pdf. Here you 
can give it the actual papersize as a parameter and your troff output 
will be cut to fit the paper.

Let me just look at how I did it in my thesis and I can give you the 
technical details.

sirjofri