[9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

[jaketodd422@gmail.com (Jacob Todd)]

There's 'Document formatting and Typesetting on the Unix System, Vol. I &II'
by Narain Gehani and Steven Lally. They're available on alibris at a cheap
price. I unfortunately haven't had time to read them yet. I know there's
also more listed at troff.org.
On Mar 22, 2011 2:46 PM, <tlaronde at polynum.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:21:55AM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> In either case, the customizations are locked in with the document source

>> and don't get distributed. Or they are so tied in with a specific
document
>> that they're of no practical use as standalone tools.
>>
>> [...]
>
> This is a general pattern. I'm not a troff but a TeX user, and just
> seeing that learning how to use the full potential of TeX to match
> my own needs was easier, shorter in time, and less expensive---because
> of D.E. Knuth's TeXbook---than trying to learn how to _use_ some
> instance of LaTeX, I still don't understand why others...
>
> I know that it is less effort to climb a mountain via a lengther but
> less sloping road... but it must not be endless because flat and must
> reach the top.
>
> The best thing I learnt while aging is not how to do more efficiently,
> but how to have time doing knowing where to look for the needle stopping
> to search the internet hay stack.
>
> 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.
> --
> Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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