* Re:[9fans] off topic: troff book
@ 2001-01-02 10:54 steve.simon
2001-01-03 8:29 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: steve.simon @ 2001-01-02 10:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> Unix Document Processing and Typesetting by
> B. Srinivasan?
Yep, I read this rears ago - I saw a copy for review as I remember,
it seemed good but, I still come back to the Edition 7 Vol2,
especially now its available online.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/
-Steve
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread* Re: Re:[9fans] off topic: troff book 2001-01-02 10:54 Re:[9fans] off topic: troff book steve.simon @ 2001-01-03 8:29 ` Boyd Roberts 2001-01-05 9:49 ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-01-03 8:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans back in the old days we just took raw troff and did the the job... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book 2001-01-03 8:29 ` Boyd Roberts @ 2001-01-05 9:49 ` John E. Gwyn 2001-01-05 14:52 ` Boyd Roberts 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: John E. Gwyn @ 2001-01-05 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans Boyd Roberts wrote: > back in the old days we just took raw troff and did the the job... If by "job" you mean formatting a fairly simple one-off document, that's fine, but if you're doing a lot of similar work tools such as chem, dag, dformat, grap, pic, eqn, tbl vastly improve one's productivity. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book 2001-01-05 9:49 ` [9fans] " John E. Gwyn @ 2001-01-05 14:52 ` Boyd Roberts 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-01-05 14:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans > If by "job" you mean formatting a fairly simple one-off document, > that's fine, but if you're doing a lot of similar work tools > such as chem, dag, dformat, grap, pic, eqn, tbl vastly improve > one's productivity. i've used 'em. same way -- just start and learn from scratch. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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