Re: [Groff] grohtml again

[Meg McRoberts]

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 <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Chuck Robey <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Groff] grohtml again
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> 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.
> 
> 
>