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* Re:[9fans] off topic: troff book
@ 2001-01-02 10:54 steve.simon
  2001-01-03  8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
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From: steve.simon @ 2001-01-02 10:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans


> Unix Document Processing and Typesetting by
> B. Srinivasan? 

Yep, I read this rears ago - I saw a copy for review as I remember,
it seemed good but, I still come back to the Edition 7 Vol2,
especially now its available online.

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/

-Steve




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* Re: Re:[9fans] off topic: troff book
  2001-01-02 10:54 Re:[9fans] off topic: troff book steve.simon
@ 2001-01-03  8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
  2001-01-05  9:49   ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-01-03  8:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

back in the old days we just took raw troff and did the the job...




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* Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
  2001-01-03  8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
@ 2001-01-05  9:49   ` John E. Gwyn
  2001-01-05 14:52     ` Boyd Roberts
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: John E. Gwyn @ 2001-01-05  9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Boyd Roberts wrote:
> back in the old days we just took raw troff and did the the job...

If by "job" you mean formatting a fairly simple one-off document,
that's fine, but if you're doing a lot of similar work tools
such as chem, dag, dformat, grap, pic, eqn, tbl vastly improve
one's productivity.


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* Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
  2001-01-05  9:49   ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn
@ 2001-01-05 14:52     ` Boyd Roberts
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-01-05 14:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> If by "job" you mean formatting a fairly simple one-off document,
> that's fine, but if you're doing a lot of similar work tools
> such as chem, dag, dformat, grap, pic, eqn, tbl vastly improve
> one's productivity.

i've used 'em.  same way -- just start and learn from scratch.




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