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The book has been re-typed, as troff, just like the original. See my comment elsewhere on this post.
by ralph 14y ago
The book has been re-typed, as troff, just like the original. See my comment elsewhere on this post.
- przemoc 14y agoNo reason to downvote me (whoever it was). The PDF http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf has _scanned_ pages with text layer on top of it. That's the reason why it's so big. I applaud retyping effort, as it's always better to preserve real content than images of it (even if OCRed), but I cannot say that I'm happy about troff being used for this purpose. It can be a matter of taste, but I don't like the way formatting is done in troff/nroff. That's why I never use it directly (e.g. using ronn to convert markdown text to man page, etc.). But I understand it's done that way to preserve "the creation process" too, which is also appreciated. And the book is about troff/nroff, so dogfooding is present. ;)