# 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)

You are viewing proxied material from 1436.ninja. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.