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Added the confirmation of own work and a colophon, listing the tools used.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:32:41 +0200
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1 .H- Colophon no
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2 .P
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3 This document was typeset with the
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4 .I troff
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5 document preparation system on Unix.
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6 After having typset my diploma thesis with Latex, the choice for
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7 troff was similar to prefering MH over mutt.
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8 .P
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9 I used the troff implementation of the Heirloom doctools,
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10 and built upon the
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11 .I ms
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12 macro package.
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13 To meet my personal wishes, I added further macros and replaced
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14 clumpsy parts of ms.
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15 My own macro code comprises about 400 lines.
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16 Unfortunately, I must admit that the troff sources are not perfectly
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17 portable as I accessed Heirloom troff extensions and ms internals,
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18 occasionally.
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19 .P
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20 I am satisfied with the result, with the exception of the English spacing.
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21 .P
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22 My troff setup was inspired and guided by
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23 Dougherty and O'Reilly's
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24 .I "UNIX Text Processing
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25 and by chapter seven of Bourne's
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26 .I "The UNIX System" .
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27 The
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28 .I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
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29 added definitive answers.
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30 .P
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31 The typesetting command line read something like:
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32 .VS
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33 export TROFFONTS=fonts REFER=bib
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34 soelim style *.roff | refer -e -P -sLAD -l,2 -k | \
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35 grap | pic | troff -Tps -ms 2>err.ig | dpost >thesis.ps
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36 VE
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37 .P
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38 The complete sources of this document, as well as final versions in
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39 PDF and Postscript format, are available on my website:
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40 .L http://marmaro.de/docs \^.
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41 .P
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42 This document may be copied and redistributed in complete form.
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43 Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
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44 Quote and acknowledge the reference.