Re: [Groff] documentation on macro writing

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

> There *is* a book on `ancient troff' available online:
> 
> http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
> 
> This is Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly's 1987 book Unix Text
> Processing.  The full text (several hundred pages) is available,
> though not in the most convenient form (large scans of individual
> pages - a tarball of the .pbm files is 37 Mb (!)) - but even with a
> modem it is possible to browse the book page by page.

Am I right in recalling that there is an on-going effort by people on
this list to OCR, or equivalent, these images?

If there's a page on progress, or how to volunteer, I'll put the details
on troff.org.

If there isn't, anyone got any ideas about how to start?

Cheers,


Ralph.