meillo@185: .H- Colophon
meillo@213: 
meillo@147: .P
meillo@147: This document was typeset with the
meillo@147: .I troff
meillo@147: document preparation system on Unix.
meillo@200: After having typeset my diploma thesis with LaTeX,
meillo@200: the choice for troff was similar to preferring MH over mutt.
meillo@147: .P
meillo@147: I used the troff implementation of the Heirloom doctools,
meillo@147: and built upon the
meillo@147: .I ms
meillo@147: macro package.
meillo@147: To meet my personal wishes, I added further macros and replaced
meillo@228: clumsy parts of ms.
meillo@147: My own macro code comprises about 400 lines.
meillo@147: Unfortunately, I must admit that the troff sources are not perfectly
meillo@147: portable as I accessed Heirloom troff extensions and ms internals,
meillo@147: occasionally.
meillo@221: The typesetting command line read something like:
meillo@221: .VS
meillo@221: export TROFFONTS=fonts REFER=bib
meillo@221: soelim style *.roff | \
meillo@221: 	refer -e -P -sLAD -l,2 -k | tbl | grap | pic | \
meillo@221: 	troff -Tps -ms -mpictures 2>err.ig | dpost >thesis.ps
meillo@221: VE
meillo@216: My document preparation setup was inspired and guided by
meillo@147: Dougherty and O'Reilly's
meillo@147: .I "UNIX Text Processing
meillo@147: and by chapter seven of Bourne's
meillo@147: .I "The UNIX System" .
meillo@147: The
meillo@147: .I "Nroff/Troff User's Manual
meillo@216: helped with definitive answers.
meillo@147: .P
meillo@228: The mail agent diagram was written in
meillo@221: .I pic .
meillo@221: The figures displaying the number of switches and the amount of
meillo@221: code through time were created with
meillo@221: .I grap .
meillo@221: The build dependency graph was generated with
meillo@221: .I dot .
meillo@221: Source data was preprocessed with
meillo@221: .I awk .
meillo@221: For programming and for writing this document, I used the
meillo@221: .I ex-vi
meillo@221: editor because
meillo@221: .I ed
meillo@221: would have been a bit too heavy, even for me.  ;-)
meillo@147: .P
meillo@160: The text and heading font is Philipp Poll's \fILinux Libertine\fP.
meillo@160: The monospace font used for code listings is a TrueType variant of
meillo@160: Dimitar Zhekov's \fITerminus\fP font.
meillo@160: Both are free typefaces.
meillo@160: .P
meillo@230: The layout of the inner pages of this document is modeled after
meillo@216: the German book \fIEinf\[udieresis]hrung in die Automatentheorie,
meillo@160: Formale Sprache und Komplexit\[adieresis]tstheorie\fP
meillo@160: by Hopcroft and Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
meillo@216: The title page was inspired by books of the 19th century,
meillo@216: mainly by the ones of Charles Darwin.
meillo@176: 
meillo@160: .sp 2
meillo@160: .LP
meillo@213: The complete sources of this document, as well as final versions in
meillo@213: PDF and Postscript format, are available on my website:
meillo@213: .CW http://marmaro.de/docs \^.
meillo@213: .P
meillo@147: This document may be copied and redistributed in complete form.
meillo@147: Apart from that, follow the scientific custom:
meillo@147: Quote and acknowledge the reference.
meillo@176: 
meillo@221: 
meillo@221: .sp \n(.tu-1u
meillo@176: Dijkstra's words on page
meillo@176: .Cf dijkstra.page
meillo@176: are a quotation of EWD\|648.