From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:54:27 -0800 Message-ID: From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c0845d6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:02 AM, hugo rivera 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