Re: [Groff] Book suggestions for troff.org

[Jaap-Jan Boor]

Hi,

A lot of programming books are written using troff
(mostly Bell Labs or AT&T related authors)

All "The C++ Programming Language" books from Bjarne Stroustrup
are written using troff (he mention e.g. in the 2nd edition
that the book was typeset using the 10th edition of UNIX
on a VAX machine, the 3rd edition he says the book was typeset
by the author I believe).

"Accelerated C++" by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo is
also written using troff. This book came out last year (2001)

Books from Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike were already mentioned
I believe.

best regards,

Jaap-Jan Boor

On maandag, januari 7, 2002, at 11:51 , Rick Richardson wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:30:37PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System, 2nd Ed.
> > > Narain Gehani
> > > mm macros, tbl, pic, eqn, wwb tools. Very brief discussions of raw
> > > troff, ideal, grap, ms & mv macros, and refer.
> > >
> > > Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System
> > >  Volume II: grap, mv, ms, & troff
> > > Narain Gehani & Steven Lally
> > > Just as the title says: in-depth coverage of items only touched upon
> > > in the first volume. The raw troff chapter has many macro writing
> > > examples.
> >
> > Both of these mention the `mv' macros.  Anyone know more about them?
> > I'm only familiar with the main mm, ms, me, and man.
>
> "A Macro Package for View Graphs and Slides"
> T. A. Dolotta
> D. W. Smith
>
> There is no date on that Bell Labs memorandum that I can find, but
> some of the examples in its appendix are dated 2/4/87.
>
> -Rick
>
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