docs/master

view colophon.roff @ 213:de8172bcdc5e

Improvements and rework of various kind.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:53:50 +0200
parents c299ed65d015
children 91999f2cddeb
line source
1 .H- Colophon
3 .P
4 This document was typeset with the
5 .I troff
6 document preparation system on Unix.
7 After having typeset my diploma thesis with LaTeX,
8 the choice for troff was similar to preferring MH over mutt.
9 .P
10 I used the troff implementation of the Heirloom doctools,
11 and built upon the
12 .I ms
13 macro package.
14 To meet my personal wishes, I added further macros and replaced
15 clumpsy parts of ms.
16 My own macro code comprises about 400 lines.
17 Unfortunately, I must admit that the troff sources are not perfectly
18 portable as I accessed Heirloom troff extensions and ms internals,
19 occasionally.
20 .P
21 My troff setup was inspired and guided by
22 Dougherty and O'Reilly's
23 .I "UNIX Text Processing
24 and by chapter seven of Bourne's
25 .I "The UNIX System" .
26 The
27 .I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
28 added definitive answers.
29 .P
30 The typesetting command line read something like:
31 .VS
32 export TROFFONTS=fonts REFER=bib
33 soelim style *.roff | refer -e -P -sLAD -l,2 -k | \
34 tbl | grap | pic | troff -Tps -ms 2>err.ig | dpost >thesis.ps
35 VE
36 .P
37 The text and heading font is Philipp Poll's \fILinux Libertine\fP.
38 The monospace font used for code listings is a TrueType variant of
39 Dimitar Zhekov's \fITerminus\fP font.
40 Both are free typefaces.
41 .P
42 The page layout of the document was greatly inspired by the German book
43 \fIEinf\[udieresis]hrung in die Automatentheorie,
44 Formale Sprache und Komplexit\[adieresis]tstheorie\fP
45 by Hopcroft and Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
46 .P
47 For programming and to write this document, I used the
48 .Pn ex-vi
49 editor because
50 .Pn ed
51 would have been a bit too heavy, even for me. ;-)
53 .sp 2
54 .LP
55 The complete sources of this document, as well as final versions in
56 PDF and Postscript format, are available on my website:
57 .CW http://marmaro.de/docs \^.
58 .P
59 This document may be copied and redistributed in complete form.
60 Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
61 Quote and acknowledge the reference.
63 .sp 3c
64 .LP
65 Dijkstra's words on page
66 .Cf dijkstra.page
67 are a quotation of EWD\|648.