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grap: Improved the number-of-switches diagram.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:06:57 +0200
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meillo@147 1 .H- Colophon no
meillo@147 2 .P
meillo@147 3 This document was typeset with the
meillo@147 4 .I troff
meillo@147 5 document preparation system on Unix.
meillo@147 6 After having typset my diploma thesis with Latex, the choice for
meillo@147 7 troff was similar to prefering MH over mutt.
meillo@147 8 .P
meillo@147 9 I used the troff implementation of the Heirloom doctools,
meillo@147 10 and built upon the
meillo@147 11 .I ms
meillo@147 12 macro package.
meillo@147 13 To meet my personal wishes, I added further macros and replaced
meillo@147 14 clumpsy parts of ms.
meillo@147 15 My own macro code comprises about 400 lines.
meillo@147 16 Unfortunately, I must admit that the troff sources are not perfectly
meillo@147 17 portable as I accessed Heirloom troff extensions and ms internals,
meillo@147 18 occasionally.
meillo@147 19 .P
meillo@147 20 I am satisfied with the result, with the exception of the English spacing.
meillo@147 21 .P
meillo@147 22 My troff setup was inspired and guided by
meillo@147 23 Dougherty and O'Reilly's
meillo@147 24 .I "UNIX Text Processing
meillo@147 25 and by chapter seven of Bourne's
meillo@147 26 .I "The UNIX System" .
meillo@147 27 The
meillo@147 28 .I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
meillo@147 29 added definitive answers.
meillo@147 30 .P
meillo@147 31 The typesetting command line read something like:
meillo@147 32 .VS
meillo@147 33 export TROFFONTS=fonts REFER=bib
meillo@147 34 soelim style *.roff | refer -e -P -sLAD -l,2 -k | \
meillo@147 35 grap | pic | troff -Tps -ms 2>err.ig | dpost >thesis.ps
meillo@147 36 VE
meillo@147 37 .P
meillo@147 38 The complete sources of this document, as well as final versions in
meillo@147 39 PDF and Postscript format, are available on my website:
meillo@147 40 .L http://marmaro.de/docs \^.
meillo@147 41 .P
meillo@147 42 This document may be copied and redistributed in complete form.
meillo@147 43 Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
meillo@147 44 Quote and acknowledge the reference.