(re-sent to include slug list) Ken writes: > grap is the one troff tool James Clark didn't reimplement when he > wrote groff. Finally someone's written a free version under FreeBSD > license. Great. Can I put in a plug for tbl here? tbl is the table formatter for (g)roff e.g. groff -t. For some reason in the past I needed to understand tbl intimately and got the book 'Typsetting Tables on the Unix System', by McGilton and McNabb. I was most struck by the reviews on the back cover: "You're a pair of lunatics" - James Gosling, Sun "Good Grief!" - Ken Greer, Elan Computer Group "Three Hundred Pages on TBL?!?" - Professor Patrick Powell, Uni Minnesota If you have any of WR Stevens books, (Unix Network Programming, TCP/IP Illustrated etc.) these have been typeset using troff. Curious, I asked him if he had used fancy macros to do the diagrams for TCP/IP illustrated. No, hand created. Jamie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
