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From: rudolf.sykora@gmail.com (Rudolf Sykora)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:10:43 +0100
Subject: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts
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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