Document Formatting & Typesetting on the UNIX System (Vol. 2)
by Narain Gehani & Steven Lally (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
ISBN 0-9615336-3-3
1988
320 pages, Hardcover
$79.95 (US Dollars)
Author Bios: Gehani

 Summary    Contents 

Table of Contents:

• Specifying Graphs
  • An Example of a grap Specification
  • Format of a Graph Specification
  • Basics
  • Frame
  • Graph Data
  • Multiple Graphs
  • Printing Strings and other Objects in a Graph
  • Control Instructions
  • Macros
  • Including and Reading Data from Files
  • Graph Size
  • How to be a Graphic Liar
  • Interface with mm/ms, pic, tbl, eqn and troff
  • Checking for Errors: grap
  • Executing UNIX Commands
  • Examples
  • Final Comments
  • Exercises
• Specifying Viewgraphs and Slides
  • Examples of Foils
  • Foil Specification Format
  • Foil-Start Instructions
  • Default Parameters
  • Titles and Centered Lines
  • Specifying Lists
  • Point Size and Line Length
  • Font Changes
  • Miscellaneous
  • Useful troff Instructions
  • Hints for Making and Managing Foils
  • Interaction with Other Doc. Prep. Facilities
  • Using mv
  • Notes
  • Exercises
• Specifying the Document Format with ms
  • An Example of Document Formatting
  • Basics
  • Variables
  • Fonts
  • Point Size
  • Vertical Spacing
  • Document Structure
  • Document Definitions, Style and Appearance Parameters
  • Document Prelude
  • Document Body
  • Document Postlude
  • Page Headers and Footers
  • Multi-Column Format
  • Miscellaneous Instructions
  • ms Extensions
  • troff Instructions and Macros
  • ms and Other Document Preparation Tools
  • Using ms
  • A Final Example
  • Exercises
• Typesetting Documents with troff
  • An Example of a troff Specification
  • Simple Typesetting Instructions
  • Comments
  • Specifying Sizes and Distances
  • Specifying Fonts
  • Specifying Point Size
  • Specifying Vertical Spacing
  • Filling and Adjusting of Text
  • Line and Page Breaks
  • Spaces, Tabs and Leaders
  • Automatic Hyphenation
  • Summary of Page Characteristic Instr.
  • Titles
  • Local Motions
  • Manipulating Files
  • String Variables
  • Numeric Variables
  • Arithmetic Expressions
  • Input Interpretation
  • Macros
  • Conditional Statements
  • Diversions
  • Traps
  • Environments
  • Character Manipulation Features
  • Underlining Words
  • Two-dimensional Graphics
  • The UNIX Environment
  • Special Characters
  • List of Predefined Variables
  • Miscellaneous
  • Examples
  • Exercises
• Example ms Document Templates
  • Letters
  • Papers
  • Books
  • Exercise
• Appendix A: Document Formatting Commands and Macros
  • grap (Preprocessor for Drawing Graphs)
  • ms (Page-Layout Macros)
  • mvt (Format Viewgraphs and Slides)
  • nroff (Format Text)
  • troff (Format Text)
• Bibliography