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From: was@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Bill Stubblebine)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Calling "tbl" gurus
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Date: 8 May 91 18:33:28 GMT
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helena@indetech.com (Helena Farias)

> Could anyone out there please suggest a good book i could read or
> suggest any other method by which i could find out how "tbl" works?

	Two highly recommended texts:

	for general troff/nroff issues:

		UNIX Text Processing
		Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly
		Haden Books
		1987
		ISBN: 0-672-46291-5
		658 pages

	specifically for tbl issues:
	
		Typesetting Tables on the Unix System,
		Henry McNabb & Mary McGilton,
		Trilithon Press
		1990
		ISBN: 0-9626289-0-5
		282 pages

> Also, what have been your experiences/problems with "tbl"?

	Experiences have been thoroughly satisfactory and problems minimal
	after studying the two references above.


                                Bill Stubblebine
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