Document Formatting & Typesetting on the UNIX System (2/E)
by Narain Gehani (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
ISBN 0-9615336-2-5
1992
390 pages, Hardcover
$79.95 (US Dollars)
Author Bios: Gehani

 Summary    Contents 

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
  • Document Format
  • The UNIX Document Formatting and Writing Tools
  • Using mm in Preference to troff
  • Using the Document Formatting and Writing Tools
  • The Typesetting Commands
• Specifying The Document Format
  • An Example of Document Formatting
  • Basics
  • Fonts
  • Point Size and Vertical Spacing
  • Document Structure
  • Document Definitions, Style and Appearance Parameters
  • Document Prelude
  • Document Body
  • Document Postlude
  • Business Letters
  • Advanced Aspects of mm
  • Interfacing with troff Preprocessors
  • Interaction of troff with mm
  • mm Command-Line Options
  • Hints for Managing Large Documents
  • Checking for Errors: checkmm
  • A Final Example
  • Exercises
• Specifying Tables
  • An Example tbl Specification
  • Format of a Table Specification
  • Specification of the Global Table Format
  • Data Format Specification
  • Table Data
  • Tables with Groups of Repeated Rows
  • troff Instructions
  • Interface with mm
  • Checking for Errors: tbl
  • Restrictions on Table Specifications
  • Examples
  • Exercises
• Specifying Figures
  • An Example pic Specification
  • Format of a Figure Specification
  • Primitive Objects: Basics
  • Moves
  • Lines and Arrows
  • Boxes
  • Circles
  • Ellipses
  • Arcs
  • Splines
  • Text
  • Invisible Objects
  • Control Instructions
  • Macros
  • Blocks
  • Including Files
  • Figure Size
  • Interface with mm and eqn
  • Checking for Errors: pic
• Specifying Formulas (Equations)
  • An Example eqn Specification
  • Specifying Equations
  • Basics
  • Subscripts/Superscripts
  • Fractions
  • Square Roots
  • Associating Limits with Items
  • Large Brackets for Grouping
  • eqn Definitions
  • Aligning Equations
  • Piles
  • Matrices
  • Diacritics
  • Local Motions
  • Labeling Equations
  • eqn Environment
  • Operator Precedence and Association
  • Special Characters and Symbols
  • eqn Interface with tbl, pic and mm
  • eqn Restrictions
  • Checking for Errors: eqn and checkmm
  • Recent Changes to eqn
  • Examples
  • Exercises
• troff/nroff - The Formatters
  • Stand-Alone troff Instructions
  • Escape Sequences for Characters, Indicators and Functions
  • Naming Conventions for Non-ASCII Characters
  • Recent Changes to troff
• WRITER'S WORKBENCH Software
  • Overview
  • proofr
  • prose
  • Example
• Example Document Templates
  • Letters
  • Papers
  • Books
  • Exercises
• Appendix A: More Document Formatting Tools
  • ideal
  • grap
  • ms Page-Layout Macros
  • mv Viewgraph Macros
  • refer
• Appendix B: Document Formatting Commands
  • checkmm (mm and eqn Error Checker)
  • double (Double Word Finder)
  • eqn and neqn (Format Mathematical Text)
  • mm (Print Documents Formatted Using mm)
  • mmt and mvt (Format Documents, Viewgraphs and Slides)
  • nroff (Format Text)
  • pic (Draw Figures)
  • spell (Find Spelling Errors)
  • tbl (Format Tables)
  • tc (troff Output Interpreter)
  • troff (Text Formatting and Typesetting)
  • wwb (WRITER'S WORKBENCH Software)
• Appendix C: Some Font Samples
• Glossary
• Annotated Bibliography