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From: henry@hourglass.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Good Books on troff/pic/eqn Wanted
Summary: Some Recommendations
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Date: 26 Sep 90 17:12:12 GMT
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In article <sb0_Tuf0BwwfEbzQ10@transarc.com>,
Bill_von_Hagen@TRANSARC.COM writes:

    *  To continue the thread about the availability of a good
    *  text on tbl, I'd like to get some pointers to
    *  everyone's favorites texts on troff, pic, and eqn.

There are at least ten books on the market related to
troff, pic, tbl, eqn, and Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.
I have read every one of these books, cover to cover, many,
many times.  Here are the two that I recommend.

    UNIX* Text Processing,
    by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly.
    Published by Hayden Books.
    ISBN  0-672-46291-5.     666 pages.
This book provides wide coverage of all aspects of using
troff and the various troff preprocessors.

    troff typesetting for UNIX Systems,
    by Sandra Emerson and Karen Paulsell.
    Published by Prentice-Hall.
    ISBN  0-13-930959-4.  360 pages.
This book is more specific to troff, and has less coverage
in using the preprocessors.

Either or both of these books are good if you wish to get
into writing your own macros or are trying to decipher
existing macros.

  *  UNIX  is a footnote of AT&T Bell Laboratories.


	........  Henry