This Perl tutorial assumes the prospective Perl hacker has no prior knowledge of programming languages, but is able to differentiate between a computer and a toaster.

A workflow for contact management in plain text.

Calcure is a modern TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface. The program manages your events and tasks, displays birthdays from your abook, and can import events and tasks from calcurse and taskwarrior.

When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the Unix geek who wants something minimalistic. It can keep track of things you need to do on particular dates.

Using remind's RUN directive and echo to pipe reminders to commands.

rem2pdf is a Perl program that takes the output of "remind -p" and
produces a PDF calendar. See "man rem2pdf" for details.

(not included in all distribution packages of remind)

text-based front-end to Remind

Note: last known working copy according to mailing list.

Add-on macro packages (not part of the groff distribution)

example documents

Adding OpenType Fonts to groff

Originally published in 1987, Unix Text Processing (UTP) (written by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly) provides one of the few comprehensive looks at all the tools involved in a typical troff-based writing workflow.

groff Mailing List archives

When writing documents in vim, it’s nice to have a quick way of compiling them into the desired formats. In my case, I compile my groff files into pdfs while at the same time having a preview in zathura. Zathura automatically detects changes in pdfs and reloads accordingly, which is nice.