[TUHS] Open source "code" for books typeset in troff

[Adam Koszek]

Multiple authors attributed good looks of their books to his macros. I wonder if anyone has a backup...

Adam

> On May 27, 2025, at 6:55 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> The ones you want are the Stevens books.  That guy made troff sing, he walked
> me through his process years (decades?) ago.  He really knew troff and those
> books have held up to this day.
> 
> No idea if the source is anywhere, but if it is, that should be archived
> because that is some great work.
> 
> I have bwk's source to the awk book but am not sure if I can publish that.
> And I have to go turn a server where it lives.
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 06:16:48PM -0700, Adam Koszek wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> troff.org <http://troff.org/> <http://troff.org/> maintains a nice list of UNIX/networking books typed in troff:
>> 
>> https://troff.org/pubs.html#advctt
>> https://troff.org/books.html#strong
>> 
>> There???s one book that???s been released out of the publisher???s copyright, transcribed, and the source is available:
>> 
>> https://github.com/larrykollar/Unix-Text-Processing
>> 
>> Are there any other other long text/books that have the source code available?
>> 
>> The only thing that I can think or are the manuals present in source trees of the current BSD systems.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Adam
> 
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