From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:08:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322190821.C8BFCB835@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:46:17 BST." <20110322184617.GA2190@polynum.com>
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:46:17 BST tlaronde at polynum.com wrote:
>
> If there is no good short authoritative book on troff, and if you are
> not already proficient in troff, try TeX instead simply because of the
> TeXbook if not something else.
Most TeX users are actually latex users, not raw TeX so the
TeXbook is not terribly useful. But there are good books on
latex and there is a wealth of material online (& many
packages that work with latex). With TeXworks and TeXshop on
the Mac writing latex docs has become more pleasant.
Still, it is much easier to learn to use troff (speaking as a
user; never tried writing a macro package for it). A lot of
things "just work".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-22 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-22 17:10 Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 17:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-03-22 17:44 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 18:21 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-03-22 18:46 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 18:48 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 18:48 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 18:59 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 19:23 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 21:00 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 21:35 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 21:50 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 21:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-22 22:06 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 22:09 ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-03-22 22:31 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 22:55 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-22 23:42 ` Steve Simon
2011-03-22 23:47 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 19:08 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2011-03-22 19:22 ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 19:50 ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-22 20:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-03-22 21:23 ` Steve Simon
2011-03-22 20:26 ` pmarin
2011-03-23 21:38 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-03-24 6:18 Allan Heim
2011-03-24 13:16 ` hiro
2011-03-24 13:55 ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-03-25 11:50 ` Aharon Robbins
2011-03-25 12:25 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 12:37 ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-25 15:10 ` pmarin
2011-03-25 15:23 ` dexen deVries
2011-03-25 15:32 ` John Floren
2011-03-25 15:41 ` John Floren
2011-03-25 20:21 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-03-25 16:48 ` Bakul Shah
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