Title: The Wall

Francis,

I use groff a lot on my Unix systems and I am badly stuck for books. Is there any chance you could include a wee note to this effect? Perhaps there may be readers out there who have spare copies of books on groff/troff/nroff etc. Some classic titles are:

Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System, 2 volumes, Nerain Gehani, Silicon Press, 0-9615336-2-5. A very good general reference; covers troff, the preprocessors, and most of the popular macro packages.

Typesetting Tables on the UNIX System, Henry McGilton, Mary McNabb. Trilithon Press, 0-9626289-0-5. A very good, very complete reference and tutorial on TBL.

Unix Text Processing, Dale Dougherty & Tim O'Reilly, Hayden Books, 0-672-46291-5. A good discussion not just of troff (ms & mm), tbl, eqn, and pic, but also vi and ex, sed, and awk.

Troff typesetting for Unix Systems, Sandra L. Emerson & Karen Paulsell (kjp@well?) Prentice-Hall, 0-13-930959-4. This is a good book for people wishing to write raw troff (as in rolling your own macros)

The UNIX Text Processing System, Kaare Christian, Wiley, 1987. Is especially good on REFER, the best chapter on REFER available. [This book now appears to be out of print.]

Text processing and typesetting with UNIX, D.W. Barron and Mike Rees, Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Of course I am willing to pay !

Joe McCool <joe@benburb.demon.co.uk>

Well has anyone got copies of any of the above (out of print?) titles that they could sell on? If so please contact Joe.