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Re: Calling "tbl" gurus

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From: Dave Lampe
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 17:35
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helena@indetech.com (Helena Farias) writes:



>could anyone out there please suggest a good book i could read
> or suggest any other method by which i could find out how 
>"tbl" works?

The best book I have found on nroff/troff and the various pre-processors
such as tbl/eqn/pic is "Text Processing and Typesetting with UNIX" by
David Barron and Mike Rees, published by Addison-Wesley. The ISBN is
0 201 14219 8, published in 1987 for $25.50.
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Subject: Re: Calling "tbl" gurus
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