From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Adam Koszek <adam@koszek.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Open source "code" for books typeset in troff
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 18:55:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250528015531.GP15224@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <397CF8D6-5AB2-4AB0-8AEE-F94A72F56FE9@koszek.com>
The ones you want are the Stevens books. That guy made troff sing, he walked
me through his process years (decades?) ago. He really knew troff and those
books have held up to this day.
No idea if the source is anywhere, but if it is, that should be archived
because that is some great work.
I have bwk's source to the awk book but am not sure if I can publish that.
And I have to go turn a server where it lives.
On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 06:16:48PM -0700, Adam Koszek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> troff.org <http://troff.org/> maintains a nice list of UNIX/networking books typed in troff:
>
> https://troff.org/pubs.html#advctt
> https://troff.org/books.html#strong
>
> There???s one book that???s been released out of the publisher???s copyright, transcribed, and the source is available:
>
> https://github.com/larrykollar/Unix-Text-Processing
>
> Are there any other other long text/books that have the source code available?
>
> The only thing that I can think or are the manuals present in source trees of the current BSD systems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
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