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# On the interesting stuff you can learn on gopher

In dbucklin's lastest phost[0] he speaks of using troff for formatting text. I am ignorant of this tool, but I have my curiosity piqued now. For one thing this phost looks amazing. It is formatted much better than my current use of par outputs.

I purchased a book titled "Troff Typesetting for Unix Systems" on Amazon[1] for $5 used. This looks to be an incredibly useful tool!! I do a lot of text formatting as do you if you are reading this on gopher. I am fairly certain that very few people (possibly none) passively consume content on gopher. Everyone is a creator in this space.

I am pretty stoked about this! 


	
[0][gopher://sdf.org/0/users/dbucklin/posts/gopher_groff.txt](gopher://sdf.org/0/users/dbucklin/posts/gopher_groff.txt)
	
[1][https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0139309594/trofforg-20](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0139309594/trofforg-20)