[Groff] UTP Transcription Project

[Larry Kollar]

Here's who's taking what so far:

ch00 (Preface) - Stewart Russell
ch01 (From Typewriters to Word Processors) - Stewart Russell
ch02 (UNIX Fundamentals) - Stewart Russell
ch03 (Learning vi) - 
ch04 (nroff and troff) - 
ch05 (The ms macros) - Larry Kollar
ch06 (The mm macros) - 
ch07 (Advanced Editing) - 
ch08 (Formatting with tbl) - 
ch09 (Typesetting Equations with eqn) - 
ch10 (Drawing Pictures) - 
ch11 (A Miscellany of UNIX Commands) - 
ch12 (Let the Computer do the Dirty Work) - 
ch13 (The awk Programming Language) - 
ch14 (Writing nroff and troff Macros) - 
ch15 (Figures and Special Effects) - Michael Hobgood
ch16 (What's in a Macro Package?) - 
ch17 (An Extended ms Macro Package) - 
ch18 (Putting it All Together) - 
appa (Editor Command Summary) - 
appb (Formatter Command Summary) - 
appc (Shell Command Summary) - 
appd (Format of troff Width Tables) - 
appe (Comparing mm and ms) - 
appf (The format Macros) - 
appg (Selected Readings) - Ralph Corderoy

Lots of typing left to be done -- everyone take a chapter
if they can!

A few comments, based on my experience at marking up text
with *roff in the long past....  Things will go much easier
if we all start each sentence at the beginning of a new line,
and put non-roman text on its own line where possible --
like this:

blah foo glabor frotz
italicized text
more blah bar blah glorp

If you have a passage like (foo italic), do:

(foo
italic )

I assume most macro packages that we'll consider will
be able to put the roman right parenthesis after the
italic text with proper italic correction & no extra
space.

I'll post text on a web page once I start receiving it.

-- 
Larry Kollar   k o l l a r  at  a l l t e l . n e t
"Content creators are the engine that drives value in the
information life cycle."   -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc