From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com) Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 12:13:06 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF? In-Reply-To: <402237b0-3ea0-db27-1670-a2e9db94e197@gmail.com> References: <201805141219.w4ECJo5G030533@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20180514150431.GB26148@mcvoy.com> <20180514151134.GC26148@mcvoy.com> <201805141521.w4EFLQK8025059@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <402237b0-3ea0-db27-1670-a2e9db94e197@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201805141813.w4EID65f027854@freefriends.org> Nemo Nusquam wrote: > On 05/14/18 11:21, Jon Steinhart wrote (in part): > > Also, as part of the book project, I have a script that I've written that > > converts the original troff source into OpenOffice XHTML since my publisher > > won't do troff. > > I am curious about PHI. Tannenbaum praises troff in his prefaces (and > says that all his books are written in troff). Not much on the PHI website. > > N. This is getting off-topic. Prentice Hall (Pearson) generally works with Word but they are able to make allowance for other formats. For sure TeX, and they can work with troff if the author wants to provide the "camera ready copy" themselves (see, for example, Brian's book on Go, done with groff). I wrote my PH book in Texinfo and the converted it to DocBook XML; they used a contractor to actually go from there to typesettable copy. Arnold