On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, John? wrote: > Many years ago, when type used to be set by hand, I was one of those who > did the typesetting.
On the basis of your opening, I suggest, in addition to other members' comments, that you take a look at the mom macro set for groff. I'm assuming that, besides setting type by hand, you most likely worked on dedicated phototypesetting systems such as Compugraphic and/or Linotronic. I come from the same background, and wrote the mom macros in order to mimic as closely as possible the commands commonly found on those systems. Thus, in addition to all the fancy stuff groff/mom can do automatically (running headers, bibliographies, tables of contents, etc), you get familiar "manual" control over all those little refinements typesetters used to pride themselves on. So if you're not familiar with Unix-style text processing, groff/mom might make a comfortable place for you to start, especially since there's tons of very readable documentation to go along with it. -- Peter Schaffter
