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Article #2812Re: Calling "tbl" gurus
From: Bill Stubblebine
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 18:33
Date: Wed, 08 May 1991 18:33
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helena@indetech.com (Helena Farias)
> 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?
Two highly recommended texts:
for general troff/nroff issues:
UNIX Text Processing
Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly
Haden Books
1987
ISBN: 0-672-46291-5
658 pages
specifically for tbl issues:
Typesetting Tables on the Unix System,
Henry McNabb & Mary McGilton,
Trilithon Press
1990
ISBN: 0-9626289-0-5
282 pages
> Also, what have been your experiences/problems with "tbl"?
Experiences have been thoroughly satisfactory and problems minimal
after studying the two references above.
Bill Stubblebine
Hewlett-Packard Logic Systems Div.
8245 N. Union Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
was@hp-lsd.col.hp.com (Internet)
(719) 590-5568
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