From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 015cd43a for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7ADF69BFF3; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:16:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AE29479A; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:16:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B01EF9479A; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:16:36 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 337 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:16:36 AEST Received: from www.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3487694794 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:16:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (lemis.com [192.109.197.81]) by www.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514951B72837; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6FFAD264D3F; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:10:56 +1000 (AEST) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:10:56 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: arnold@skeeve.com Message-ID: <20190917001056.GD31311@eureka.lemis.com> References: <463d5cc4-9bef-9ac3-a680-a5161d664dc1@aueb.gr> <20190913221345.GA16129@minnie.tuhs.org> <20190914020240.GO2046@mcvoy.com> <20190914024433.GA19193@minnie.tuhs.org> <2e84c4d0-5239-b223-856d-00aacf8d3028@andrewnesbit.org> <069494b2-ec5b-91e7-8618-2d111e0e5aa2@andrewnesbit.org> <201909160620.x8G6KkJq026850@freefriends.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J4XPiPrVK1ev6Sgr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201909160620.x8G6KkJq026850@freefriends.org> Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [TUHS] O'Reilly groff macros (was: earliest Unix roff) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --J4XPiPrVK1ev6Sgr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 16 September 2019 at 0:20:46 -0600, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: >> 1. Do you think there is any chance of obtaining these macro packages? >> Either from authors who haven't passed away, or from the publishing >> houses themselves? > > O'Reilly probably would. I can ask someone there, if there's serious > interest here. They haven't used troff for book production for well > over a decade. The O'Reilly macro package was derived from the macros described in Dougherty and O'Reilly "UNIX Text Processing" (Hayden 1988). I received a copy round 1993 for my book "Porting UNIX Software" (didn't we shout in those days?), and when we released the book under Creative Commons in 2005 or so, the macros were released with it. It's available online as http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/PUS/tmac.Gbignuts.G In passing I should mention that they required me to use those macros. At the time I wanted to use TeX, but they were "unwilling". I used groff, and I've never used TeX since: a dead baby duck. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --J4XPiPrVK1ev6Sgr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl2AJJAACgkQIubykFB6QiNM8gCfXj7/bSVTmJBDpFCS/r6ztBHj +pEAn0LQ+NB/M/HKOUt3Mn0UZ79UgL6O =YaGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J4XPiPrVK1ev6Sgr--