lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin) (05/27/88)
I'd like to be able to format up text under minix. Yeah I know about roff. But its not up to the task of coping with an "me" like macro package, no number registers or conditionals. Most of my stuff (ie: thesis) is in "me" format If anyone has managed to create a setup where they can format "me" documents or a reasonable subset I'd really appreciate it. Failing that I'm supposed to get into TeX sometime, if I ever get any free time again! Has anyone put up common-Tex under minix yet? Lee -- UKUUCP SUPPORT Lee McLoughlin "What you once thought was only a nightmare is now a reality!" Janet: lmjm@uk.ac.ic.doc, lmcl@uk.ac.ukc DARPA: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (or lmjm%uk.ac.ic.doc@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk) Uucp: lmjm@icdoc.UUCP, ukc!icdoc!lmjm
wes@obie.UUCP (06/01/88)
In article <306@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin) writes: > I'd like to be able to format up text under minix. Yeah I know about > roff. But its not up to the task of coping with an "me" like macro > package, no number registers or conditionals. Most of my stuff (ie: thesis) > is in "me" format > > If anyone has managed to create a setup where they can format "me" > documents or a reasonable subset I'd really appreciate it. You might want to take a look at a book published by M&T Books (the publishers of Dr. Dobb's Journal). The author of Dr. Dobb's "C Chest" column, Allen Holub, wrote an nroff-clone called NR as a series of several columns, and the columns were gathered together in a book. The book and an MS-DOS disk containing the source (in C, of course) are $29.95 US. The complete title is "NR: An Implementation of the Unix NROFF Word Processor". M&T Books, 501 Galveston Dr. Redwood City, CA 94063 In the US, you can call 800-533-4372 - they take VISA, MC, & AmEx. > Failing that I'm supposed to get into TeX sometime, if I ever get > any free time again! Has anyone put up common-Tex under minix yet? The Austin Code Works lists the source for TeX (Turbo TeX, they call it) in their latest listings for $170. You can get more info by mailing to ....!uunet!acw!info. -- /|\ Barnacle Wes @ Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch / | \ @ J/22 #49, _d_J_i_n_n_i /__|__\ ___|____ "If I could just be sick, I'd be fine." ( / -- Joe Housely, owner of _E_p_i_d_e_m_i_c -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd) (06/04/88)
In article <241@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes: >You might want to take a look at a book published by M&T Books (the >publishers of Dr. Dobb's Journal). The author of Dr. Dobb's "C Chest" >column, Allen Holub, wrote an nroff-clone called NR as a series of >several columns, and the columns were gathered together in a book. I've got a copy of it. Fairly nice nroff clone, with a fairly reasonable clone of the -ms macros. However if you want to compile it under Minix, you'll have a problem: the code makes considerable use of floating point and Minix's C compiler doesn't have a floating point library. I suppose you could cross-compile, though... -- Richard Todd Dubious Domain: rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu USSnail:820 Annie Court,Norman OK 73069 Fido:1:147/1