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
