From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:00:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+N-5bZ1PA1s2SBGHs94hL8KU6x5_AD7L5ASKL1m9WhTNKe-Gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4LZyipdgovtVBPVEZeXMnkm1MDG-aVnRqY53ejj1fA3GPdcg@mail.gmail.com>
I have written books both in latex and in troff.
It's a nightmare, no matter in what, to get things like
indexes and tocs right.
Doing it in troff required me to write a few scripts to
generate some of the tables.
Doing it in latex required me to write a few scripts to
fix up things not handled well by latex (I'm sorry, but don't
remember which ones were the actual problems, it was long ago).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-02 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-02 13:02 hugo rivera
2011-12-02 13:15 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 13:23 ` Aharon Robbins
2011-12-02 13:33 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-02 13:40 ` Steve Simon
2011-12-02 16:08 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-02 17:54 ` John Floren
2011-12-02 18:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2011-12-02 18:13 ` Австин Ким
2011-12-02 18:21 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:16 ` ron minnich
2011-12-02 18:20 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-12-02 18:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-02 18:29 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:45 ` John Floren
2011-12-02 21:02 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 22:24 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:29 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:42 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-03 1:26 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-12-11 22:57 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-12 9:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 9:59 ` simon softnet
2011-12-12 10:28 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 10:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-12-12 12:04 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 12:37 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 12:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 12:42 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 14:10 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-12-12 17:46 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 17:48 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 18:42 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 19:22 ` Bakul Shah
2011-12-12 19:45 ` Steve Simon
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