The Qed Book is intended to be a tutorial, both basic and advanced, for the Qed text editor.
It is currently in a very incomplete draft state. The advanced part of the tutorial is the most complete, and it is an edited version of Rob Pike's original Qed Tutorial. It has been updated in places to reflect the changes that Rob had made to the register and arithmetic language since the original release of his tutorial.
The basic part is being written by me (when I have the spare time!), and is intended to bring users unfamiliar with the ed-way of text-editing up to speed, and ready to tackle Rob's tutorial.
Over time, I hope to be able to make more revisions to Rob's tutorial to make some of the examples less anachronistic, and to go into more detail in certain (interesting) areas.
I have chosen to use asciidoc as the format simply because I like the
default html and pdf outputs, and, despite a few annoyances, it
is reasonably easy to learn-forget-relearn-reforget....
The evolution of Rob's tutorial from his original troff manuscript
through to the current asciidoc version can be tracked in the
git history of my now obsolete first port of Qed here.
Readers wishing to play-along should download and install my improved port of Qed here.
This Github repository is a mirror of my private fossil repository.
I am experimenting with the fossil -> Github workflow, so bear
with me!