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

[pmarin.mail@gmail.com (pmarin)]

A very gentle introduction about  Troff macros is
"A TROFF Tutorial" by Kernighan. (http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html)

A great and complete book with macros like you are looking for is
"Unix Text Processing". You can download it from
http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>