From: Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:52:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F27F7B9.6040303@nas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b7a8baf8587f7d114907d6081d97cd4@yourdomain.dom>
From http://troff.org/pubs.html#tpop
"This book was typeset (grap|pic|tbl|eqn|troff -mpm) in Times and Lucida
San[s] Typewriter by the authors."
Just for trivia's sake, does anyone know (hi, Rob!) if this book was
typeset on Plan 9?
There's an interview with Brian at Linux Journal:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7035
and I noticed interviewers often ask him about C vs. Pascal, but rarely
(if ever) about troff vs. TeX.
-Jack
P.S.
I spent some quality time with awk for the first time last Friday
(converting some ugly one-off bash shell scripts) and couldn't have been
more pleased with the results, so this thread is a kind of harmonic
convergence of unrelated incidents and interests for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 16:52 UTC|newest]
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2003-07-30 16:38 ` [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript? steve.simon
2003-07-30 16:52 ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2003-07-30 16:58 ` [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff andrey mirtchovski
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