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