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No more need to grumble about English spacing.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:04:04 +0200
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.H- Colophon no
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This document was typeset with the
.I troff
document preparation system on Unix.
After having typset my diploma thesis with Latex, the choice for
troff was similar to prefering MH over mutt.
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I used the troff implementation of the Heirloom doctools,
and built upon the
.I ms
macro package.
To meet my personal wishes, I added further macros and replaced
clumpsy parts of ms.
My own macro code comprises about 400 lines.
Unfortunately, I must admit that the troff sources are not perfectly
portable as I accessed Heirloom troff extensions and ms internals,
occasionally.
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My troff setup was inspired and guided by
Dougherty and O'Reilly's
.I "UNIX Text Processing
and by chapter seven of Bourne's
.I "The UNIX System" .
The
.I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
added definitive answers.
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The typesetting command line read something like:
.VS
export TROFFONTS=fonts REFER=bib
soelim style *.roff | refer -e -P -sLAD -l,2 -k | \
        grap | pic | troff -Tps -ms 2>err.ig | dpost >thesis.ps
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The complete sources of this document, as well as final versions in
PDF and Postscript format, are available on my website:
.L http://marmaro.de/docs \^.
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This document may be copied and redistributed in complete form.
Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
Quote and acknowledge the reference.