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From: cuccia@yak.sybase.com (Nick Cuccia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: a word-processor for UNIX
Keywords: editor troff vi
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Date: 27 Jul 89 00:38:47 GMT
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In article <393@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> pipes@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>In article <1552@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> mcclaren@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Tim McClarren) writes:
>>[stuff elided]  I dunno...maybe I read too much popular
>>lit./media, but I've not seen a whole lot of "This book written under vi, and 
>>typeset with LaTeX/*roff on Bob & Jim's UNIX(c) box."  
>
>Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M.; The C Programming Language,
>     2nd edition; Prentice Hall, 1988.
>     Pg. IV
>     "This book was typeset (pic|tbl|eqn|troff -ms) in Times Roman and
>     Courier by the authors, using an Autologic APS-5 phototypesetter
>     and a DEC VAX 8550 running the 9th Edition of the UNIX(c) 
>     operating system."
>

Why limit yourself to the second version?  Something similar was in the
first version.  Many of the books out of Bell Labs in the past ten years
have had similar statements--the Dragon books, the Bach book, etc.

Not that I like (or even *care*) what system was used for any given book;
Just stating that this is hardly a new practice--just one that's become
popular...

--Nick
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