terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) (10/09/85)
Sorry this summary is so late, but I wanted to find some of these
books and look them over before I posted anything.
For those of you who don't remember, I was looking for a good book on
nroff/troff. The following list contains the suggestions I received.
From: Andy Cohill {ihnp4|allegra}houxm!whuts!amc
Introducing the UNIX System
McGilton & Morgan (McGraw-Hill)
Document Processing Guide
AT&T Technologies
order # 341-920
AT&T CIC 317/352-0011
Indianapolis
$30.00
From: Val Polichar psivax!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc13!valerie
UNIX FOR PEOPLE by Birns, Brown and Muster
From: Ian F. Darwin ihnp4!darwin!ian
Morris Krieger's _Word Processing on the UNIX System_.
McGraw-Hill/Byte Books, ISBN 0-07-035498-7, 1985, 372pp plus index.
From: Dave McClellan psivax!sdcrdcf!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!
ncsu!fcstools!dave
_The UNIX System_, by S.R.Bourne, International Computer Science
Series, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1983.
ISBN 0-201-13791-7
From: David Brown psivax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!zehntel!varian!david
"A Practical Guide to the UNIX System" by Mark Sobell
(Benjamin Cummings)
I was able to find about four of these books. The following is my
evaluation of what I found.
For nroff ONLY, the following are good:
A Practical Guide to the UNIX System
UNIX for People
Introducing the UNIX System
The UNIX System
For troff, the only good one I found was:
The UNIX System
I couldn't find a copy of Word Processing on the UNIX System. And I
have a copy of the Document Processing Guide ordered, but it hasn't
arrived yet. I figured getting it straight from the horse's mouth (so
to speak) was the best way to go.
I also bought The UNIX System, which has already been of great benefit
to me.
Hope this helps some of the rest of you out there struggling along
with the NROFF/TROFF manual. I did find that after reading some of
the rest of these, the manual started to make more sense. Once I got
oriented to it, that is.
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Terry Grevstad
Network Research Corporation
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