From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: intro.ms
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:35:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120413133524.076d7c74@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3TwZVY2-QyO8d6HVFsvsj9+674BiRU9428606mYJQGUZw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:21:27 +0200
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> For more information, the files Doc/intro.txt or Doc/intro.troff
> included with the source distribution are highly recommended. A list
> of features is given in FEATURES, also with the source.
>
> But these files don't exist at least since we started using cvs, and I
> can't get any man/troff/nroff/*roff variant to produce readable output
> from intro.ms. /README notes that it is based on zsh 2.5 but still a
> good introduction. Does anyone know how to build it, or should we
> remove it and/or the recommendation to read it?
"nroff -ms" is still producing quite readable about for me, and "pdfroff
-ms" produced a usable document which we could distribute in the doc
bundle, but it's not a very sensible source format. I suppose it would
need to be translated by hand.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-13 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-13 12:21 intro.ms Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-13 12:35 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2012-04-13 14:10 ` intro.ms Mikael Magnusson
2012-04-13 22:42 ` intro.ms Peter Stephenson
2012-04-14 20:06 ` intro.ms Mikael Magnusson
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