<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Branden, the only resources in English from him that I know of are from his website. Working links:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.kohala.com/start/pagelayout.html">http://www.kohala.com/start/pagelayout.html</a></div><div><a href="http://www.kohala.com/start/indexing.html">http://www.kohala.com/start/indexing.html</a></div><div><a href="http://www.kohala.com/start/chartjunk.html">http://www.kohala.com/start/chartjunk.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>but it may not be enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 28, 2025, at 6:52 PM, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>[looping in groff list]<br><br>Hi Larry and Adam,<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On May 27, 2025, at 6:55 PM, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:<br>The [troff macros] you want are [those used to compose] the Stevens<br>books. That guy made troff sing, he walked me through his process<br>years (decades?) ago. He really knew troff and those books have<br>held up to this day.<br><br>No idea if the source is anywhere, but if it is, that should be<br>archived because that is some great work.<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>I too am a fan of W. Richard Stevens's work. I am disappointed that he<br>passed long before I became involved in groff development and therefore<br>had an excuse to frequently engage with him--I am certain I would have<br>learned much about *roff and other things.<br><br>At 2025-05-28T16:17:04-0700, Adam Koszek wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Multiple authors attributed good looks of their books to his macros. I<br>wonder if anyone has a backup...<br></blockquote><br>Alternatively or additionally, if someone has a thorough English-<br>language description of those macros at the level of detail of a<br>specification, then I can see them becoming part of the GNU roff<br>distribution, either as a "contributed" component or as part of the<br>"official" system, depending on who did the work and what copyright they<br>were comfortable applying to it.[1]<br><br>I emphasize that, for groff, "contrib" is not a wastebasket directory on<br>a website; everything in the "contrib" directory of groff's Git<br>repository gets built and shipped, and distributors generally provide<br>the materials therein. Some of it gets automated testing and/or has<br>seen recent bug fixes and development too, as with the groff version of<br>the mm macros, and Peter Schaffter's popular (and sophisticated) "mom"<br>package.<br><br>Regards,<br>Branden<br><br>[1] groff's "LICENSES" file attempts to illuminate these matters.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>