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From: rees@apollo.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: The Constitution of the United States of America
Message-ID: <375a4049.b8ab@apollo.uucp>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 11:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 11:05:00 1987
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Distribution: usa
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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[ I've restricted the distribution to 'usa' for this followup. ]

I hope you didn't type this in by hand.  That's already been done
before, and I hate to see wasted effort.

About 3 years ago, a group of people got together, split up the
constitution, and each typed in part of it.  Then they posted it
to the net in troffable form.  Their version doesn't depend on
any particular troff macro package.

I've still got a copy.  I won't post it, but here's the introduction:

From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Part 1, U.S.Constitution
Message-ID: <1236@hao.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 84 14:36:08 GMT
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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Source of the U.S. Constitution:

This is a description of the file which contains the source for the
Constitution of the United States of America.  The file is set up as an
input file for nroff.  However, the information is structured in such a way
that it can be easily edited for other formatters.  Familiarity with nroff
is assumed in what follows.

There is no dependence on any particular macro package.  It should be
possible to format the Constitution text using most existing macro packages
(within reason--e.g., the "-man" manual page macros are probably not a good
choice).  A few macros are used in the text.  The meaning for these macros
is given next, followed by a sample set of macros which can be used to
format the Constitution for perusal on a CRT.  Refer to these sample macros
for illustration of the explanations of meanings.

What to do:
	Get the macros (possibly the ones which are at the end of this
	message) into a file.
	Get the main source into another file, removing any header and/or
	blank lines.
	Nroff the two files and see what happens.  Adjust macros
	accordingly.

The following people helped to get this project through to completion:

proper!gam
ccivax!band
dartvax!betsy
omsvax!batie
ritcv!krf7527
tektronix!andr
teldata!shad
ccivax!band
cepu!scw
dartvax!betsy
omsvax!batie
ritcv!krf7527
stcvax!lat
tekigm!dand
tektronix.andr
teldata.shad
nbires!rcd

Special thanks is owed to Dick Dunn (nbires!rcd), who not only
typed in more than his share, but proof-read and formatted the whole
thing and wrote most of this posting.

If there are any questions about the format or the accuracy,
contact me or Dick.  If there are any questions about the nroff
stuff, contact Dick, or your local guru.  If there are any questions
about the content, ask the Supreme Court.