From: "Allan J. Heim" <ajh@netscape.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:48:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A54D72F.EB3E697B@netscape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001227192658.BD226199E4@mail.cse.psu.edu>
> Has anyone here read Unix Document Processing and Typesetting by
> B. Srinivasan? If so, would you recommend it?
I'm sure it's fine. "Word Processing on the Unix System" (I don't have
the author's name handy) was also really good, but it's years out of
print. A look at Amazon reveals "Document Formatting and Typesetting on
the Unix System" by Narain Gehani, and I seem to recall that it was
useful.
Having been a troff typesetter in my youth, I'd ask you to consider
TeX/LaTeX as an alternative. It seems more complex to set up, but it's
very sophisticated typesetting software, and the community
(http://www.tug.org/) is very active. There's even a graphical front-end
for LaTex, called "LyX".
--
Allan J. Heim mailto:ajh@netscape.com
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-27 19:26 James A. Robinson
2001-01-02 17:44 ` John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05 9:48 ` Allan J. Heim [this message]
2001-01-05 14:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05 19:29 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-06 17:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-06 18:31 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2001-01-07 1:20 ` [9fans] " Steve Kilbane
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2001-01-08 15:17 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 10:29 John A. Murdie
2001-01-08 15:06 ` Mark C. Otto
2001-01-07 15:17 rob pike
2001-01-08 9:54 ` Luis Fernandes
2001-01-08 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-08 20:07 ` Dan Cross
2001-01-12 9:32 ` saroj
2001-01-12 17:17 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-12 17:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:25 ` saroj
2001-01-12 18:20 ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-12 18:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-16 16:31 ` saroj
2001-01-08 17:19 ` James A. Robinson
2001-01-08 19:21 ` Howard Trickey
2001-01-09 9:38 ` Andy Newman
2001-01-09 9:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-10 0:16 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-01-11 9:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-01-02 10:54 steve.simon
2001-01-03 8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-05 9:49 ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn
2001-01-05 14:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-19 21:44 Boyd Roberts
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