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1 .H- Colophon no
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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,
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7 the choice for troff was similar to prefering MH over mutt.
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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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20 My troff setup was inspired and guided by
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21 Dougherty and O'Reilly's
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22 .I "UNIX Text Processing
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23 and by chapter seven of Bourne's
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24 .I "The UNIX System" .
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25 The
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26 .I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
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27 added definitive answers.
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29 The typesetting command line read something like:
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30 .VS
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31 export TROFFONTS=fonts REFER=bib
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32 soelim style *.roff | refer -e -P -sLAD -l,2 -k | \
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33 grap | pic | troff -Tps -ms 2>err.ig | dpost >thesis.ps
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36 The text and heading font is Philipp Poll's \fILinux Libertine\fP.
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37 The monospace font used for code listings is a TrueType variant of
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38 Dimitar Zhekov's \fITerminus\fP font.
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39 Both are free typefaces.
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41 The page layout of the document was greatly inspired by the German book
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42 \fIEinf\[udieresis]hrung in die Automatentheorie,
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43 Formale Sprache und Komplexit\[adieresis]tstheorie\fP
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44 by Hopcroft and Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
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46 For measuring code size, I used David A. Wheeler's
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47 .Pn sloccount .
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49 The complete sources of this document, as well as final versions in
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50 PDF and Postscript format, are available on my website:
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51 .L http://marmaro.de/docs \^.
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55 This document may be copied and redistributed in complete form.
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56 Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
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57 Quote and acknowledge the reference.
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61 Dijkstra's words on page
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62 .Cf dijkstra.page
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63 are a quotation of EWD\|648.