On 17-Jan-11 17:11:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > Werner wrote: >> Unfortunately, merging doesn't work due to licensing issues (except >> there is stuff in the public domain). You can use the original paper >> as a starting point, but it must be reformulated. > > Personally, I find Kernighan's writing in particular to generally be > terse, clear, and complete. Any "re-write" or reformulating might find > it hard to keep to his high standard. > > Cheers, > Ralph.
I heartily agree. The classic troff (and indeed UNIX) documentation is a model of minimal sufficiency (to abuse a statistical term) along with clarity (though sometimes requiring the user to solve some logical puzzles -- but that was all part of the original UNIX experience)! That being said, I'd like to let it be known that I have been contemplating for a long time putting together a connected account (like an extended version of the Kernighan & Cherry "Typesetting Mathematics -- User's Guide" that Ralph pointed to previously). This would include not only the entirety of the basics of using GNU eqn, but also how to tweak the details, and how to extend it using macros, etc., based on the many "tips & tricks" I have built up over some 25 years of using UNIX and GNU eqn. So it's probably time I started! This would be in PS and PDF format, along with troff source, and would of course be freely available (and possibly appropriate for bundling with groff). So stand by. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[email protected]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Jan-11 Time: 17:55:39 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
