On 11 Mar, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > The only reference I ever used was the original AT&T Unix manuals. If > you're nice to someone working at Aurema, they might let you make a > photocopy of the relevant bits.
There's a lot to be said for those (especially some of the Tbl manuals), but I've found the Gehani book really useful. Maybe because I only ever use the mm macros, or sometimes some raw troff. > If you can at all avoid it, don't use troff. Eh? I use it all the time. Unless you mean, "use groff instead"? I have to agree, that I think nowadays the groff version of troff is better than the original, as of about last year. It's funny, you know. 20 years ago, troff was one of the heaviest duty programs a normal user would run on a typical Unix system. Typesetting a 60 page paper slowed the machine down noticeably for other users, for the 5 or 10 minutes it took to do its thing. Nowadays, I can typeset a 500 page book in about 30 seconds; it's almost fast enough to do interactively. <Dorset accent> Arr, those were the days. I remember ,when I were a lad ... </Dorset accent> Sorry, I'll stop blathering. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
