Regarding https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq@www.uninformativ.de: Despite having watched meillo’s talk on troff and friends¹ over one and a half decades ago (and thus forgotten everything), it feels soooo alien, I’m surprised. I should really look into this myself. I frequently use gq} and gqG. They’re real lifesavers.

¹: https://www.ulm.ccc.de/ccc/chaosseminar/2009_11_troff-and-friends/

Just rewatched the video recording. It’s a really great talk.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah! It was precisely that talk that got me into groff/troff in the first place. 😊 Haven’t seen it in a while. Maybe I should have rewatched it before making that blog post. 😅

The groff syntax is quite alien indeed. Because it’s so terse. I mean, have fun decyphering stuff like that:

\l'\w@\\$1@u\N@45@'