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diff colophon.roff @ 216:91999f2cddeb

Updates of the Colophon.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:35:36 +0200
parents de8172bcdc5e
children 37d9398c779a
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     1.1 --- a/colophon.roff	Fri Jul 13 01:12:07 2012 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/colophon.roff	Fri Jul 13 18:35:36 2012 +0200
     1.3 @@ -18,14 +18,14 @@
     1.4  portable as I accessed Heirloom troff extensions and ms internals,
     1.5  occasionally.
     1.6  .P
     1.7 -My troff setup was inspired and guided by
     1.8 +My document preparation setup was inspired and guided by
     1.9  Dougherty and O'Reilly's
    1.10  .I "UNIX Text Processing
    1.11  and by chapter seven of Bourne's
    1.12  .I "The UNIX System" .
    1.13  The
    1.14  .I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
    1.15 -added definitive answers.
    1.16 +helped with definitive answers.
    1.17  .P
    1.18  The typesetting command line read something like:
    1.19  .VS
    1.20 @@ -39,12 +39,14 @@
    1.21  Dimitar Zhekov's \fITerminus\fP font.
    1.22  Both are free typefaces.
    1.23  .P
    1.24 -The page layout of the document was greatly inspired by the German book
    1.25 -\fIEinf\[udieresis]hrung in die Automatentheorie,
    1.26 +The layout of the inner pages of this document were modelled after
    1.27 +the German book \fIEinf\[udieresis]hrung in die Automatentheorie,
    1.28  Formale Sprache und Komplexit\[adieresis]tstheorie\fP
    1.29  by Hopcroft and Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
    1.30 +The title page was inspired by books of the 19th century,
    1.31 +mainly by the ones of Charles Darwin.
    1.32  .P
    1.33 -For programming and to write this document, I used the
    1.34 +For programming and for writing this document, I used the
    1.35  .Pn ex-vi
    1.36  editor because
    1.37  .Pn ed
    1.38 @@ -60,7 +62,7 @@
    1.39  Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
    1.40  Quote and acknowledge the reference.
    1.41  
    1.42 -.sp 3c
    1.43 +.sp 2.5c
    1.44  .LP
    1.45  Dijkstra's words on page
    1.46  .Cf dijkstra.page