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|Many of these books may be out of print now, so you may have to hunt
|through Computer Science Libraries and UNIX programmer's secret caches.
Troff User's Manual, by Ossanna and Kernighan, is available for
| anonymous ftp as ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr/.
| The above URL may no longer be in existance, but apparently,
| it's now available at http://www.kohala.com/~rstevens/troff/cstr54.ps
| Also available is Kernighan's raw troff tutorial at:
| http://www.kohala.com/~rstevens/troff/v7man/trofftut/trofftut.ps
Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System,
2 volumes, Nerain Gehani, Silicon Press, ISBN 0-9615336-2-5.
A very good general reference; covers troff, the preprocessors,
and most of the popular macro packages.
Typesetting Tables on the UNIX System, Henry McGilton, Mary McNabb.
Trilithon Press, ISBN 0-9626289-0-5. A very good, very complete
reference and tutorial on TBL.
Unix Text Processing, Dale Dougherty & Tim O'Reilly, Hayden Books,
ISBN 0-672-46291-5. A good discussion not just of troff (ms & mm),
tbl, eqn, and pic, but also vi and ex, sed, and awk.
Troff typesetting for Unix Systems, Sandra L. Emerson & Karen Paulsell
(kjp@well?) Prentice-Hall, 0-13-930959-4. This is a good book
for people wishing to write raw troff (as in rolling your own
macros)
troff-Programmierung: proffessionelle Textverarbeitung und
Schriftsatz unter UNIX, Claus Schirmer, Hanser Verlag 1990,
ISBN 3-446-15649-6. Reportedly a superb book on troff
programming. Ie: a ms-like macro package is built in a
step-by-step way. Don't know if there's non-German language
version.
The UNIX Text Processing System, Kaare Christian, Wiley, 1987.
Is especially good on REFER, the best chapter on REFER
available. [This book now appears to be out of print.]
Text processing and typesetting with UNIX, D.W. Barron and Mike Rees,
Addison-Wesley, 1987.
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