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From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] troff book (was: pic generators?)
Date: Fri,  7 Feb 2003 09:28:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0302070924440.23858-100000@athena> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1592.3e43a5f2.6d80a@blake.inputplus.co.uk>

Interesting.

Now that this page is brought to my attention, I realize
that the book I've been learning my troff from isn't in
the list.  I picked it up on Ebay from a UK bookseller.
It's titled _Unix System Document Processing Guide_ and
has no authors listed.  The publisher is Western Electric.

Anyone heard of this one?  The writing is quite good,
and rather comical at times.

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Since we're at it, there's also www.troff.org, which has a pointer to
> > the recreated Unix Text Processing.  The scanned bitmaps of the
> > original are available from O'Reilly.
>
>     http://troff.org/books.html#ora
>
> Cheers,
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-07 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-05 14:59 [9fans] pic generators? Sam
2003-02-05 15:05 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-05 15:11   ` Sam
2003-02-05 15:15     ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-02-05 15:54       ` Boyd Roberts
2003-02-05 17:01         ` Charles Forsyth
2003-02-05 15:59       ` Russ Cox
2003-02-05 20:23     ` William Josephson
2003-02-06  9:40     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-02-05 15:38 ` David Butler
2003-02-05 16:31 ` Jon Snader
2003-02-06 12:52   ` Aharon Robbins
2003-02-07 12:33     ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-02-07 14:28       ` Sam [this message]
2003-02-10 10:04         ` [9fans] troff book (was: pic generators?) Ralph Corderoy
2003-02-05 17:05 ` [9fans] pic generators? Skip Tavakkolian

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