jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) (11/17/89)
I am need of help in finding some advice, assistance, or a book for neophyte nroff users for the following purpose. I am in the process of writing several manuscript/essays that are all part of the same book. What I am looking for is an easy to use macro package with a manual aimed at serious neophytes at nroff. The needs in this package are the following: page justification page numbering easy to set right/left margins easy to center titles page headings with a string and page number that do not start on the first page chaining other files to a file do not leave last line of a paragraph to be carried over as first line of new page On my system currently I have the .an, .e, .m, .n, .ptx, .s, .ti, and .v macros. I am sure one of them probably does what I am looking for, but the manual pages I have are not really aimed at someone who doesn't know what they are doing in the first place. This is really imporatant so any help that any of you can give would be greatly appreciated. If you do not feel that this matter is important enough to waste net bandwidth, please feel free to send me mail to this account or to jep@fantasci.UUCP. Thanks in advance. -Jo
kk@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Konstantinos Konstantinides) (11/22/89)
The book "Unix Text Processing" by Dougherty and O'Reilly, Hayden Books ($27) describes all you need to know about mm and ms and more (tbl, pic, eqn, etc). K. Konstantinides