Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System, Volume II

This book is a sequel to DOCUMENT FORMATTING & TYPESETTING ON THE UNIX SYSTEM by Gehani. The authors assume that the reader is familiar with the material in the first book, e.g., basic formatting concepts, and UNIX system formatting and typesetting tools such as TBL, PIC and EQN. Gehani and Lally discuss in detail UNIX tools that were either not discussed or were discussed briefly in the first book. The book contains chapters that discuss in detail tools for specifying graphs (GRAP)), viewgraphs (MV), document format (MS) and the formatters (TROFF/BROFF). It also contains MS templates for a variety of documents (such as books).

1. Specifying Graphs
1. An Example of a grap Specification
2. Format of a Graph Specification
3. Basics
4. Frame
5. Graph Data
6. Multiple Graphs
7. Printing Strings and other Objects in a Graph
8. Control Instruction
9. Macros
10. Including and reading Data from Files
11. Graph Size
12. How to be a Graphic Liar
13. Interface with mm/ms, pic, tbl, eqn and troff
14. Checking for Errors: grap
15. Executing UNIX Commands
16. Examples
17. Final Comments
18. Exercises
2. Specifying Viewgraphs and Slides
1. Example of Foils
2. Foil Specification Format
3. Foil-Start Instructions
4. Default Parameters
5. Titles and Centered Lines
6. Specifying Lists
7. Point Size and Line Length
8. Font Changes
9. Miscellaneous
10. Useful troff Instructions
11. Hints for Making and Managing Foils
12. Interaction with Other Doc. Prep. Facilities
13. Using mv
14. Notes
15. Exercises
3. Specifying the Document Format with ms
1. An Example of Document Formatting
2. Basics
3. Variables
4. Fonts
5. Point Size
6. Vertical Spacing
7. Document Structure
8. Document Definitions, Style and Appearance Parameters
9. Document Prelude
10. Document Body
11. Document Postlude
12. Page Headers and Footers
13. Multi-Column Format
14. Miscellaneous Instructions
15. AT&T UNIX (8th Ed.) ms Extensions
16. troff Instructions and Macros
17. ms and Other Document Preparation Tools
18. Using ms
19. A Final Example
20. Exercises
4. Typesetting Documents with troff
1. An Example of a troff Specification
2. Simple Typesetting Instructions
3. Specifying Sizes and Distances
4. Specifying Fonts
5. Specifying Point Size
6. Specifying Vertical Spacing
7. Filling and Adjusting of Text
8. Line and Page Breaks
9. Spaces, Tabs and Leaders
10. Automatic Hyphenation
11. Summary of Page Characteristics Instr.
12. Formatting Titles and Strings
13. Local Motions
14. Manipulating Files
15. String Variables
16. Numeric Variables
17. Arithmetic Expressions
18. Input Interpretation
19. Macros
20. Conditional Statements
21. Diversions
22. Traps
23. Environments
24. Character Manipulation Features
25. Two-dimensional Graphics
26. The UNIX Programming Environment
27. Special Characters
28. Predefined Numeric Variables
29. Miscellaneous
30. Examples
31. Exercises
5. Example ms Document Templates
1. Letters
2. Papers
3. Books
4. Exercise

1. Document Formatting Commands and Macros
   1. grap (Preprocessor for Drawing Graphs)
   2. ms (Page-Layout Macros)
   3. mvt (Format Viewgraphs and Slides)
   4. nroff (Format Text)
   5. troff (Format Text)

The sequel text regarding troff and friends. Excellent books.