Re: Typesetting Mathematics by Kernighan and Cherry, retypeset in PDF

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2022-07-02T10:13:03-0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 09:37:16PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Thanks to some feedback in private email from Deri James, I'm
> > pleased to make available a PDF version of the re-typeset
> > "Typesetting Mathematics - User's Guide (Second Edition)" by
> > Kernighan and Cherry.
> > 
> > Some upsides of PDF over PostScript are that:
> > 
> > 1. The text is searchable.
> > 2. The text is navigable.  All this required was the addition of one
> >    macro call to the existing private `SC` macro defined by the
> >    document.  Et voil?--all the section headings are hyperlinked in
> >    a navigation pane (if your PDF reader offers one).
> 
> That SC macro is the shnizzle, thanks to whoever did that, it's super
> useful.

The `SC` macro itself appears to be unique to this document in Unix V7,
so I assume we can credit Brian Kernighan and/or Lorinda Cherry.  I
don't see it in other documents with a Kernighan byline, so maybe we can
credit the late Ms. Cherry for it.  It seems to have better ergonomics
for latter-day *roffers who are more used to calling macros that take
arguments than to ones which open a diversion and start gobbling up text
for later regurgitation.

The idea to leverage the groff `pdfbookmark` macro at that point,
rousing the impressive machinery of modern PDF viewers, was all Deri's.

Regards,
Branden

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