Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!decuac!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!brister From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Text Formatting Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 90 19:50:22 GMT References: <26047@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Followup-To: comp.text Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: ornstein@boulder.Colorado.EDU's message of 11 Sep 90 19:36:54 GMT X-Checksum-Snefru: b3cfbfb6 dd3b8739 8586d740 6ef7aa9b On 11 Sep 90 19:36:54 GMT, ornstein@boulder.Colorado.EDU (ORNSTEIN JASON L) said: > Hope this is the right area for a question like this. You probably want comp.text (see Followup-To line) > I am looking for a good book on text formatting on a Unix system. I > would be interested in someting along the lines of Troff and Nroff for > now, but maybe something better a little later, such as Tex (if this is > considered to be better). Well, not everyone considers TeX to be better (I do); however it a lot more difficult than nroff or troff to use. LaTeX is a better choice for simple formatting. See Leslie Lamport's book "LaTeX" published by Addison-Wesley. James -- James Brister brister@decwrl.dec.com DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, California. .....!decwrl!brister