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From: rudolf.sykora@gmail.com (Rudolf Sykora)
Subject: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:10:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimt8ia6Hs=p7sssbWNhrRePd5LhuSUC9xwsgco+@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello everyone,

please, does somebody know of any troff macros that were used to typeset books?
Can one get hold of e.g. macros used to typeset e.g. "The AWK
Programming Language" by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, or ?The Unix
Programming Environment? by Kernighan and Pike?

I want to particularly know how headings were programmed. I.e., how
the name of a chapter that is only to appear on a page gets to its
heading. I feel that either the file must be processed twice, or one
must write a heading of a page only when the page is about to be
completed (one would then back up to the heading position, write it,
and only then continue).

Thanks
Ruda



             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-22 17:10 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2011-03-22 17:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-03-22 17:44   ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 18:21     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-03-22 18:46       ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 18:48         ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 18:48           ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 18:59             ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 19:23               ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 21:00             ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 21:35               ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 21:50                 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 21:51               ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-22 22:06                 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 22:09               ` Brian L. Stuart
2011-03-22 22:31                 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-03-22 22:55                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-22 23:42                   ` Steve Simon
2011-03-22 23:47                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-22 19:08         ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-22 19:22           ` tlaronde at polynum.com
2011-03-22 19:50         ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-22 20:08           ` Anthony Sorace
2011-03-22 21:23           ` Steve Simon
2011-03-22 20:26 ` pmarin
2011-03-23 21:38 ` Stanley Lieber
2011-03-24  6:18 Allan Heim
2011-03-24 13:16 ` hiro
2011-03-24 13:55   ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-03-25 11:50     ` Aharon Robbins
2011-03-25 12:25       ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 12:37         ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-25 15:10         ` pmarin
2011-03-25 15:23           ` dexen deVries
2011-03-25 15:32           ` John Floren
2011-03-25 15:41             ` John Floren
2011-03-25 20:21             ` Michael Kerpan
2011-03-25 16:48         ` Bakul Shah

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