I just checked and Amazon has 9 used copies available, two for less that $10:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0810462915/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used Six are available at half.com: http://product.half.ebay.com/Unix-Text-Processing_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ1500033 --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Chuck Robey <chu...@telenix.org> wrote: > From: Chuck Robey <chu...@telenix.org> > Subject: Re: [Groff] grohtml again > To: rob...@thorsby.com.au > Cc: groff@gnu.org > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 6:37 PM > Robert Thorsby wrote: > > On 29/12/09 12:35:37, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> You ever see the Sam's book on Unix system > >> typesetting? I think I saw a pdf of it on > >> the web a year or two ago, (I have TWO > >> printed copies of it!), and you ought to > >> consider looking at it, it's easily the most > >> readable things on all aspects of roff > >> programming available. You need to have > >> several of the things from Bell Labs > >> available while you read macros, but it's a > >> really, really good start on things. > > > > Nope, haven't got that one. Thanks for the heads up. > Will start > > googling in the New Year. > > > > Nearly all of what I know (which is not much) I got > from this list; > > seeing someone's two line idea get expanded by Ted > into 20 lines of > > practicality and by Werner into a page of definitive > code. Of course, > > if I am feeling lazy, I just see how Peter does it. > :-) > > > > Robert > > Chicken Little only has to be right once. -- Anon > > > > > > > > I just rechecked, I got the exact name wrong, it's "Unix > Text Processing", > Sam's, authors Dougherty and O'Reilly. That, and the > docs that are available > from the GNU groff docs page, are enough to write macros > from (especially with > that really fine intro to macros writing in Unix Text > Processing). There's a > pdf on the web somewhere, and although I really do wish it > would go back into > print, I wouldn't hold my breath on that. > > >
