Folks,
A broadcast message (apologies to all who thereby receive
cross-postings) to let you know that the excellent book
"Unix Text Processing", originally by Dale Dougherty and
Tim Reilly and published in 1987 by O'Reilly and Associates
(increasingly famous for the outstanding series of "O'Reillys"
on all sorts of aspects of Unix and Linux):--
-- having been released into the public domain by O'Reilly has
been re-created as groff source code by a team of volunteers
coordinated by Larry Kollar, and reformatted into PostScript
and PDF.
The result, now at "beta 2.1a", is available from
http://www.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/
and is essentially complete.
For those of you who may wonder what it's really about:
-- it covers the use of Unix troff and friends, and the use
of many of the general Unix utilities (vi, ex, sed, awk etc)
in the coordinated way that Unix (and of course Linux) so readily
permits, to produce high quality and sophisticated documents
and books of almost arbitrary complexity, with the writer having
control over the finest detail of layout and typesetting.
Future planned developments will bring the book up to date with
respect to the more recent devopments embodied in GNU groff,
James Clark's re-creation of the Unix troff suite of programs.
Best wishes to all,
Ted.
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