From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 18184 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2020 20:11:47 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Nov 2020 20:11:47 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0258E9C209; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 06:11:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3CE9C204; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 06:11:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5B29D9C204; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 06:11:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 666569C203 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 06:11:17 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 0AUKBDA8007590 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:11:13 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 0AUKBAis007581; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:11:10 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202011302011.0AUKBAis007581@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:11:10 -0700 To: cowan@ccil.org, clemc@ccc.com References: <8b580c46-ecfb-9383-ed43-08108b3ee7bf@tllds.com> <20201130163753.GB18187@mcvoy.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) 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@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Clem Cole wrote: > > I think O'Reilly was the last commercial publisher with a troff toolchain. They stopped using troff directly well over 20 years ago. These days if you're using a markup language and their toolset it's either Asciidoc or docbook. > I think it depends on who you are and your editor is at the said firm. Tim > will still take troff I assume you mean Tim O'Reilly? He hasn't been involved in the book side of his business in decades, and as I said, troff isn't in the picture there. > as will John Waite at Pearson. They farm such things out, they don't accept it in house. Or the author can provide "camera ready copy", which these days just means PDF. > That said, as Jon can tell you, Bill will not. No idea who Bill is. Arnold