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From: ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Typesetting Tables on the UNIX system
Message-ID: <210018@vantage.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 90 04:31:24 GMT
References: <3863@gara.une.oz.au>
Organization: Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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> Subject: Typesetting Tables on the UNIX system
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> I would like to know if this company is a reputable one and if anyone
> has actually seen the book concerned. The Title is the title of this
> mail.

We have purchased the book, and I feel it is excellent. It is 280+ pages,
and contains a very thorough tutorial on the use of tbl for typesetting
tables. I feel that it is clearly written. It has lots of examples (which
I find extremely helpful. The lack of meaningful/useful/non-toy examples in
many technical texts is one of the areas I feel verrry strongly about.
I feel that this book is definitely worth the price paid for it.
By the way, the table of contents is good -- actually useful as a post-reading
way to dive into the book for reference (versus the too-often used half-page
list of chapter titles).


Ray Liere
Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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