From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pic generators?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:52:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <newscache$c8zv9h$07m$1@lnews.actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030205163158.GA52524@ix.netcom.com>
In article <20030205163158.GA52524@ix.netcom.com>,
Jon Snader <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>Rich Stevens used raw pic for all his books. He posted some interesting
>examples of how he used it at <http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html>
>along with the pic macros that he used.
>
>In addition to the excellent groff pic manual that Eric Raymond wrote,
>you might also want to look at the chapter on pic in _Unix Text Processing_.
>You can find (the recreated) UTP at <http://www.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/>.
>
>Jon Snader
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.
That UTP is back from the dead is a wonderful development, at least for
dinosaurs like me.
Arnold
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-06 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-05 14:59 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 [this message]
2003-02-07 12:33 ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-02-07 14:28 ` [9fans] troff book (was: pic generators?) Sam
2003-02-10 10:04 ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-02-05 17:05 ` [9fans] pic generators? Skip Tavakkolian
2003-02-05 16:36 rog
2003-02-05 16:36 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-06 0:46 okamoto
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