From: dds@aueb.gr (Diomidis Spinellis)
Subject: [TUHS] The Fourth Research Edition Unix Programmer's Manual
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:43:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5e2a655-b969-7c7d-3747-6c4b2056b74c@aueb.gr> (raw)
I don't think we had the Fourth Research Edition Unix Programmer's
Manual available in typeset form. I played a bit with the troff manual
pages on TUHS and managed to typeset it into PDF. You can find the PDF
document at https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v4man/v4man.pdf.
I modernized the old shell scripts and corrected some minor markup
glitches through commits that are recorded on a GitHub repository:
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-v4man. The process was surprisingly
smooth. The scripts for generating the table of contents and the
permuted index are based on the original ones. The few problems I
encountered in the troff source had to do with missing spaces after
requests, the ^F hyphenation character causing groff to complain, a
failure of groff to honor .li requests followed by a line starting with
a ., and two uses of a lowercase letter for specifying a font. I wrote
from scratch a script to typeset everything into one volume. I could
not find a shell script for typesetting the whole manual in any of the
Research Editions. I assume the process of running the typesetter was
so cumbersome, error prone, and time-consuming that it was manually
performed on a page-by-page basis. Correct me if I'm wrong here.
Diomidis Spinellis
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