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From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:48:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32490607a1a7ec830a162035c0ca2219@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110322184822.GB2190@polynum.com>

>> 
>> 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.
> 
> And mind you, I know for sure there is TeX for Plan9---even if I'm the
> only one interested in it; but it is published as a side effect of my
> own needs, not as a goal.

the Te?book may be authoratative, but it's by no means short.

- erik




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22 18:48 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 [this message]
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
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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