Re: [Groff] Re: Groff digest, Vol 1 #797 - 16 msgs

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Larry,

> > > 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?
> 
> Has anyone contacted O'Reilly and asked if they have the source to the
> book?  I know Tim O'Reilly slightly, I can do that if nobody has yet.

IIRC Tim said they couldn't find the source when they looked, hence them
making scans of the pages available as the best they could do.

Cheers,


Ralph.