From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:54:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZyipdgovtVBPVEZeXMnkm1MDG-aVnRqY53ejj1fA3GPdcg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFo14L2gEk_MCjGh183bMR78hJd1pnuBWpP3eOjPEGkp+apnOg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:02 AM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> soon I'll begin to write my thesis and I am planing to use troff. I
> previously wrote some documents with it, mostly with the ms macro,
> which I think I'll use for the thesis. Can you advice some book about
> troff with some introduction on how to write troff macros?
> Saludos y gracias,
>
> --
> Hugo
>
Hi Hugo
Having recently written my thesis, I strongly recommend using LaTeX. I
love troff, I always enjoy writing short papers (such as my IWP9
submissions) in troff, but I think I would have gone insane writing my
thesis without LaTeX. BibTeX alone is a huge incentive for me. Plus,
it's quite possible that your school may already have a sample LaTeX
thesis for you to work from; in my case, we had a style definition
file (.sty) to include in the thesis source, and then a sample
document using it.
KerTeX is pretty neat, so if you want to write your thesis on Plan 9
it's a good option.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-02 17:54 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 [this message]
2011-12-02 18:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
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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