Re: [Groff] Introduction to groff in french

[GregExp]

Hi Ralph, 

thank you for your answer. 
I will choose one of the three commands with dpkg...

And yes, thank you, with cat, you can look at an input-file directly in
the terminal.

Cheers
Gregoire 


Le jeudi 23 octobre 2014 à 11:40 +0100, Ralph Corderoy a écrit :
> Hi Gregoire,
> 
> >   This isn't the best way to verify package installation from the
> >   command line.  I recommend inserting a bit of code into your article
> >   for checking whether groff is installed:
> > 
> >     dpkg -l | sed -n '/groff[^-]/p'
> 
> To avoid scaring the chevaux, how about
> 
>     $ dpkg -l | grep 'groff[^-]'
>     ii  groff            1.20.1-10             GNU troff text-formatting 
> system
>     $
> 
> Or even better, simply
> 
>     $ dpkg -l groff
>     Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>     | 
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>     |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>     ||/ Name           Version        Description
>     
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
>     ii  groff          1.20.1-10      GNU troff text-formatting system
>     $
> 
> > Generally, I wouldn't spend so much space on piping text at the
> > command line through to groff (your poem, e.g.).
> 
> The printfs don't end with `\n' so are producing a non-Unix text file.
> :-)  Also, another way to do it might be
> 
>     printf '%s\n' 'The boy stood on the burning deck,' \
>         'His feet glued down with treacle,' \
>         '...' |
> 
> But I agree with Peter, the less odd command line stuff up front, the
> better.  After saying how to use a text editor, one could stick to
> 
>     $ cat foo.tr
>     ...
>     $ groff -k foo.tr >foo.ps
>     $
> 
> to show examples of input, the commands used on them, and expected
> outputs.
> 
> Cheers, Ralph.
>