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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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  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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