Re: [Groff] grohtml again

[Miklos Somogyi]

My bible is a well-worn photocopy of "Using nroff & troff"  from 1990.
I wish that a pdf of it would float around somewhere to download and  
search ...

Miklos


On 29/12/2009, at 01:37 PM, Chuck Robey wrote:

> Robert Thorsby wrote:
> > On 29/12/09 12:35:37, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > > You ever see the Sam's book on Unix system
> > > typesetting?  I think I saw a pdf of it on
> > > the web a year or two ago, (I have TWO
> > > printed copies of it!), and you ought to
> > > consider looking at it, it's easily the most
> > > readable things on all aspects of roff
> > > programming available.  You need to have
> > > several of the things from Bell Labs
> > > available while you read macros, but it's a
> > > really, really good start on things.
> >
> > Nope, haven't got that one. Thanks for the heads up. Will start
> > googling in the New Year.
> >
> > Nearly all of what I know (which is not much) I got from this list;
> > seeing someone's two line idea get expanded by Ted into 20 lines of
> > practicality and by Werner into a page of definitive code. Of course,
> > if I am feeling lazy, I just see how Peter does it. :-)
> >
> > Robert
> > Chicken Little only has to be right once. -- Anon
>
> I just rechecked, I got the exact name wrong, it's "Unix Text  
> Processing",
> Sam's, authors Dougherty and O'Reilly.  That, and the docs that are  
> available
> from the GNU groff docs page, are enough to write macros from  
> (especially with
> that really fine intro to macros writing in Unix Text Processing).   
> There's a
> pdf on the web somewhere, and although I really do wish it would go  
> back into
> print, I wouldn't hold my breath on that.