Re: [Groff] Macro packages (was: need advice on choosing a macro)

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Greg,

> > As I said in my last post in this thread, _Unix Text Processing_ is
> > another example of a moderately large book (over 500 pages) written
> > with ms.
> 
> No, UTP was written with its own macros.

Jon may have been referring to the recent project to recreate the source
of UTP from the scanned pages with the authors permission.

    http://www.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/

That has been done using groff's ms macros.

> I wrote "Porting UNIX Software" with O'Reilly's adaptation of the ms
> macros.  ...  When I started writing "The Complete FreeBSD"

Two more for http://troff.org/pubs.html, thanks.


Ralph.