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1 .H- Colophon
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3 .P
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4 This document was typeset with the
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5 .I troff
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6 document preparation system on Unix.
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7 After having typeset my diploma thesis with LaTeX,
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8 the choice for troff was similar to preferring MH over mutt.
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10 I used the troff implementation of the Heirloom doctools,
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11 and built upon the
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12 .I ms
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13 macro package.
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14 To meet my personal wishes, I added further macros and replaced
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15 clumsy parts of ms.
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16 My own macro code comprises about 400 lines.
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17 Unfortunately, I must admit that the troff sources are not perfectly
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18 portable as I accessed Heirloom troff extensions and ms internals,
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19 occasionally.
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20 The typesetting command line read something like:
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21 .VS
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22 export TROFFONTS=fonts REFER=bib
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23 soelim style *.roff | \
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24 refer -e -P -sLAD -l,2 -k | tbl | grap | pic | \
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25 troff -Tps -ms -mpictures 2>err.ig | dpost >thesis.ps
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26 VE
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27 My document preparation setup was inspired and guided by
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28 Dougherty and O'Reilly's
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29 .I "UNIX Text Processing
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30 and by chapter seven of Bourne's
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31 .I "The UNIX System" .
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32 The
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33 .I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
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34 helped with definitive answers.
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36 The mail agent diagram was written in
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37 .I pic .
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38 The figures displaying the number of switches and the amount of
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39 code through time were created with
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40 .I grap .
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41 The build dependency graph was generated with
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42 .I dot .
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43 Source data was preprocessed with
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44 .I awk .
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45 For programming and for writing this document, I used the
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46 .I ex-vi
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47 editor because
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48 .I ed
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49 would have been a bit too heavy, even for me. ;-)
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51 The text and heading font is Philipp Poll's \fILinux Libertine\fP.
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52 The monospace font used for code listings is a TrueType variant of
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53 Dimitar Zhekov's \fITerminus\fP font.
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54 Both are free typefaces.
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56 The layout of the inner pages of this document is modeled after
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57 the German book \fIEinf\[udieresis]hrung in die Automatentheorie,
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58 Formale Sprache und Komplexit\[adieresis]tstheorie\fP
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59 by Hopcroft and Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
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60 The title page was inspired by books of the 19th century,
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61 mainly by the ones of Charles Darwin.
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63 .sp 2
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64 .LP
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65 The complete sources of this document, as well as final versions in
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66 PDF and Postscript format, are available on my website:
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67 .CW http://marmaro.de/docs \^.
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69 This document may be copied and redistributed in complete form.
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70 Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
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71 Quote and acknowledge the reference.
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74 .sp \n(.tu-1u
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75 Dijkstra's words on page
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76 .Cf dijkstra.page
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77 are a quotation of EWD\|648.