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

[stanley.lieber@gmail.com (Stanley Lieber)]

> 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).

I'm currently in the process of re-typesetting my books using troff. Once
completed, I plan to make the troff sources and build system available
alongside the output.

The links mentioned in this thread are basically the same documents
I've worked from during this process. In addition, I purchased the Gehani
books a while back; they contain a lot of helpful information, although
Gehani seems to favor mm over ms.

-sl