There's 'Document formatting and Typesetting on the Unix System, Vol. I &II' by Narain Gehani and Steven Lally. They're available on alibris at a cheap price. I unfortunately haven't had time to read them yet. I know there's also more listed at troff.org. On Mar 22, 2011 2:46 PM, <tlaro...@polynum.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:21:55AM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> [...] >> >> In either case, the customizations are locked in with the document source
>> and don't get distributed. Or they are so tied in with a specific document >> that they're of no practical use as standalone tools. >> >> [...] > > This is a general pattern. I'm not a troff but a TeX user, and just > seeing that learning how to use the full potential of TeX to match > my own needs was easier, shorter in time, and less expensive---because > of D.E. Knuth's TeXbook---than trying to learn how to _use_ some > instance of LaTeX, I still don't understand why others... > > I know that it is less effort to climb a mountain via a lengther but > less sloping road... but it must not be endless because flat and must > reach the top. > > The best thing I learnt while aging is not how to do more efficiently, > but how to have time doing knowing where to look for the needle stopping > to search the internet hay stack. > > If there is no good short authoritative book on troff, and if you are > not already proficient in troff, try TeX instead simply because of the > TeXbook if not something else. > -- > Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> > http://www.kergis.com/ > Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C > >
