* Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript? [not found] <1111306366@snellwilcox.com> @ 2003-07-30 16:38 ` steve.simon 2003-07-30 16:52 ` [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff Jack Johnson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: steve.simon @ 2003-07-30 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 42 bytes --] Sorry, yes, mind on other things -Steve [-- Attachment #2: Type: message/rfc822, Size: 947 bytes --] From: 9fans@cse.psu.edu To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript? Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:29:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1111306366@snellwilcox.com> steve.simon@snellwilcox.com wrote: > generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' | > awk 'turn data into tbl/MS macros' | > tbl | > ms2html > report.ps Wouldn't that be troff instead of ms2html? Or: generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' | awk 'turn data into simple HTML' | html2ms | troff > report.ps ? (going from the 30s of Google research -- sorry for any obvious ignorance) -Jack ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff 2003-07-30 16:38 ` [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript? steve.simon @ 2003-07-30 16:52 ` Jack Johnson 2003-07-30 16:58 ` andrey mirtchovski 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Jack Johnson @ 2003-07-30 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff 2003-07-30 16:52 ` [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff Jack Johnson @ 2003-07-30 16:58 ` andrey mirtchovski 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2003-07-30 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jack Johnson wrote: > There's an interview with Brian at Linux Journal: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7035 > He talks about all the different operating systems he uses, and mentions that at Bell-Labs it's IRIX. I fing it strange, because I have put on the web his README for beginner Plan 9 users: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/README.html Or maybe it isn't strange -- the README was written in 1995 after all. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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