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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>
Cc: Tautological Eunuch Horticultural Scythians <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS]  Re: Collecting notes for future “historians” was: Earliest UNIX Workstations?
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:36:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230127003612.dszdsftdjkobikx7@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <620c709c-e8bb-401c-a60d-8869457caacd@app.fastmail.com>


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Hi Joseph,

At 2023-01-26T14:41:50-0800, Joseph Holsten wrote:
> And if I’m writing in troff, is there a preferred macro set for
> articles these days? A decade ago I wrote manuals in mdoc but papers
> in LaTeX; these days I just lean on pandoc to translate. I’ll need to
> knock my rust off.

There's always ms.  It's pretty easy to acquire, and will produce
authentic looking traditional Unix papers with little effort.  Here's a
manual that Larry Kollar and I wrote, in source and PDF forms.  It's
gotten positive feedback from the groff mailing list.

Regards,
Branden

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-27  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-26  0:31 [TUHS] " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26  0:51 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26  1:06   ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-26  1:15     ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26  1:01 ` Larry Stewart
2023-01-26 13:25   ` Marc Donner
2023-01-26 13:58     ` arnold
2023-01-31  2:03   ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-01-31 17:43     ` Marc Donner
2023-01-26  1:12 ` Tom Lyon
2023-01-26  1:47 ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-26  7:20   ` John Cowan
2023-01-26  7:33     ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found]     ` <CAD2gp_QtUPmd78yAixvKK1wzPX67HKZXzU5cJnVUbcWtMounGQ@mail.g mail.com>
2023-01-26 16:35       ` John Foust via TUHS
2023-01-26 17:58     ` Jon Forrest
2023-01-26 18:04     ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 21:29       ` [TUHS] Collecting notes for future “historians” was: " Joseph Holsten
2023-01-26 21:38         ` [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2023-01-26 22:41           ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-27  0:34             ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27  0:36             ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2023-01-27  0:53               ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27  1:28                 ` David Arnold
2023-01-27  1:35                   ` Warner Losh
2023-01-26  9:52 ` [TUHS] " emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26  9:58   ` Rob Pike
2023-01-26 10:09   ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
2023-01-26 15:14 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-28 21:16 [TUHS] Re: Collecting notes for future “historians” was: " Douglas McIlroy
2023-01-30  6:13 ` Phil Budne

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