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‘This entire text was edited and processed under UNIX. The text was formatted using troff, with the assistance of tbl for tables and pic for the figures. The troff output was converted to PostScript using devps. The camera ready copy was printed on an Apple LaserWriter Plus, with no pasteup required.’
Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-48417-X. amazon.com.
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‘Real Unix books are written using troff and this book follows that time-honored tradition. Camera-ready copy of the book was produced by the author using the groff package written by James Clark. Many thanks to James Clark for providing this excellent system and for his rapid response to bug fixes. Perhaps someday I will really understand troff footer traps.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-56317-7. amazon.com.
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‘This book was typeset in Times Roman and Courier by the authors, using an Autologic APS-5 phototypesetter and a DEC VAX 8850 running the 9th Edition of the UNIX operating system.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-07981-X. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘Written in my own macros, which are based on the mm macro set.’
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 0-596-00516-4. amazon.com.
‘This book was set in Times Roman and Courier 12 by the authors, using a Graphic Systems phototypesetter driven by a PDP-11/70 running under the UNIX operating system.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-110163-3. amazon.com.
‘This book was typeset (pic|tbl|eqn|troff -ms) in Times Roman
and Courier by the authors, using an Autologic APS-5 phototypesetter
and a DEC VAX 8550 running the 9th Edition of the UNIX operating
system.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-110362-8. amazon.com.
The book's home page, and an archive.
‘This book was typeset in Palatino and Courier by the author, using an Autologic APS-5 prototypesetter and a DEC MicroVAX II computer running the 9th Edition of the UNIX operating system.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-17928-8. amazon.com.
Collins. ISBN 0004725026. amazon.com.
Collins. ISBN 0004705858. amazon.com.
‘This book was typeset on an IBM PC/AT using EROFF a version of the UNIX troff typesetter ported to MSDOS by Elan Computer Group.’
Prentice-Hall Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-13-155045-4. amazon.com.
‘This book was phototypeset by the authors using the excellent software
available on the UNIX system. The typesetting command read
pic files | tbl | eqn | troff -ms
pic is Brian Kernighan's language for typesetting figures; we
owe Brian a special debt of gratitude for accommodating our special and
extensive figure-drawing needs so cheerfully. tbl is Mike
Lesk's language for laying out tables. eqn is Brian Kernighan
and Lorinda Cherry's language for typesetting mathematics.
troff is Joe Ossanna's program for formatting text on a
phototypesetter, which in our case was a Mergenthaler Linotron 202/N.
The ms package of troff macros was written by Mike
Lesk. In addition, we managed the text using make due to Stu
Feldman. Cross references within the text were maintained using
awk created by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger,
and sed created by Lee McMahon.’
Addison Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-10088-6. amazon.com.
‘The book was typeset in Times Roman using Troff, which, after all these years, is still the only way to go. While Troff is not as trendy as WYSIWYG systems, the reader is invited to compare the typesetting quality of this book with books produced by WYSIWYG systems.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0133499456. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN 0-13-143351-2. amazon.com.
‘This book was produced using James Clark's implementations of pic, tbl, eqn, and groff. The index was generated by awk scripts derived from indexing programs written by Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan [Bentley & Kernighan, 1986]. Most of the art was created with xfig. Figure placement and widow elimination were handled by the groff macros, but orphan elimination and production of even page bottoms had to be done by hand.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-54979-4. amazon.com.
‘I produced camera-ready copy for this book using James Clark's Groff
package, and Rich Stevens' modified ms macros. The
illustrations were prepared with gpic (including macros
written by Rich Stevens and Gary Wright), the tables with
gtbl, and the (limited) mathematical notation with
geqn. The index was produced with the help of a set of
awk scripts written by Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan. The
example code was included in the text directly from the program files
with the help of Dave Hanson's loom program.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-61589-4. amazon.com.
‘We were able to type the manuscript directly into a PDP 11/45, edit the source, check the programs, and set the final version in type — all with the help of a uniquely flexible operating system called UNIX. K. L. Thompson and D. M. Ritchie were the principal architects of UNIX; besides reading drafts, the helped us get the most out of the system while we were working on this book. J. F. Ossanna wrote the typesetting program and made several modifications for our special needs. We thank them.’
McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-034207-5. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN 0-13-144310-0. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN 0-13-030852-8. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN 0-13-187671-6. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN 0-13-973843-6. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 0-13-474230-3. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 0-13-260969-X. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN 0-13-032071-4. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN 0-13-848714-6. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN 0-13-261348-4.
‘The print version of this book was created by translating the DocBook XML markup of its source files into a set of gtroff macros using a filter developed at O'Reilly & Associates by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU troff -gs macros; Lenny Muellner adapted them to XML and implemented the book design. The GNU groff text formatter Version 1.11.1 was used to generate PostScript output.’
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 0-596-00046-4. amazon.com.
‘This book was typeset in Times Roman and Courier by the author, using an Autologic APS-5 phototypesetter driven by a DEC VAX 8550 running the 9th Edition of the UNIX operating system.’
Addison Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-11889-0. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN 0-13-141792-4. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN 0-13-148927-5. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN 0-13-187286-9. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1984. ISBN 0-13-637539-1. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1989. ISBN 0-13-638529-X. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1988. ISBN 0-13-638180-4. amazon.com.
Prentice Hall, 1987. ISBN 0-13-637414-X. amazon.com.
ISBN 3125171598. amazon.com.
‘Written in O'Reilly's version of the ms macros, based on those described in “UNIX Text Processing”, though they converted it to SGML/DocBook before publication. Their typesetting process still involves converting DocBook back to groff and then running the descendants of the same macros.’
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-126-7. amazon.com.
‘This book was typeset (grap|pic|tbl|eqn|troff -mpm) in Times
and Lucida San Typewriter by the authors.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-61586-X. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘This book was written on my Toshiba T4700CT laptop, bought used, running Slackware Linux. After any productive session, the Troff source was backed up to a floppy in case the disk crashed or the system was stolen or dropped.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-046456-2. amazon.com.
‘This book was set in Times Roman and Helvetica Regular by the authors, using a Graphic Systems phototypesetter driven by a PDP-11/45 running under the UNIX operating system.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-03669-X. amazon.com.
‘Camera-ready copy of the book was produced by the author, a Troff die-hard, using the Groff package written by James Clark.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63346-9. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘Camera-ready copy of the book was produced by the authors. It is only fitting that a book describing an industrial-strength software system be produced with an industrial-strength text processing system. Therefore one of the authors chose to use the Groff package written by James Clark, and the other author agreed begrudgingly.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63354-X. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘As usual, camera-ready copy of the book was produced by the author, a Troff die-hard, using the Groff package written by James Clark.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63495-3. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘The manuscript was formatted using troff macros that were implemented by Linda Mui and Lenny Muellner.’
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-001-5. amazon.com.
‘This book was produced by the author using AT&T's Documenter's
Workbench, Release 2.0 (grap, pic, tbl,
eqn, and ditroff) on a VAX 8650 running 4.3BSD. The
source code was included in the text using the loom program
provided by David R. Hanson (Princeton University). The index was
generated using software written by Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan.
PostScript output was produced by the TranScript package from Adobe
Systems. Final camera-ready copy was produced on a Linotronic 300
typesetter.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-949876-1. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘As usual, but contrary to popular fads, I produced camera-ready copy of the book using the wonderful Groff package written by James Clark. I typed in all 291,972 words using the vi editor, created the 201 illustrations using the gpic program (using many of Gary Wright's macros), produced the 81 tables using the gtbl program, performed all the indexing, and did the final page layout. Dave Hanson's loom program and some scripts by Gary Wright were used to include the source code in the book. A set of awk scripts written by Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan helped in producing the final index.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-490012-X. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘I produced camera-ready copy of the book (PostScript), which was then typeset for the final book. The formatting system used was James Clark's wonderful groff package, on a SparcStation running Solaris 2.6. (Reports of troff's death are greatly exaggerated.) I typed in all 138,897 words using the vi editor, created the 72 illustrations using the gpic program (using many of Gary Wright's macros), produced the 35 tables using the gtbl program, performed all the indexing (using a set of awk scripts written by Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan), and did the final page layout. Dave Hanson's loom program, the GNU indent program, and some scripts by Gary Wright were used to include the 8,046 lines of C source code in the book.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-081081-9. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
See page 800.
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-260-3. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘This book was typeset in Times Roman and Courier by the authors, using a Mergenthaler Linotron 202 phototypesetter driven by a VAX-11/750 running the 8th Edition of the UNIX operating system.’
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-937681-X. amazon.com.
The book's home page.
‘This book was typeset using the typesetting tools of the Unix Operating System.’
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-85581-2. amazon.com.
‘As with my previous book, I produced camera-ready copy for this text using
James Clark's splendid Groff typesetting suite (now maintained by Ted Harding
and Werner Lemberg) and Rich Stevens' modified ms macros.
I used the gpic, gtbl, and geqn preprocessors for
the figures, tables, and mathematical notation, respectively.
Some of the figures use gpic macros from Rich Stevens and Gary Wright.
Indexing tools from Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan were a huge help in the
production of the index.
I included the source code for the programming examples directly from their
source files with Dave Hanson's loom utility.
The text is set in the Palatino typeface.’
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-24544-X. amazon.com.
From appearances and pedigree it would appear that this book was written with troff. I'd be interested to hear from anyone that can give certainty either way.
Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-182718-9. amazon.com.
Anyone know of something that isn't a book, e.g. a journal? Usenix papers are reported as looking suspiciously like -ms documents.
Add year of publication and number of pages.
From: Jaap-Jan Boor <jjboor@freeler.nl> I think all Bjarne Stroustrup's books on C++ and its development are typeset using troff, also those from Andrew Koenig. Andrew Tanenbaum (professor of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam) is also a troff user, all his books (OSes and distributed OSes and computer networks) are typeset using troff. [and later] All ‘The C++ Programming Language’ books from Bjarne Stroustrup are written using troff (he mention e.g. in the 2nd edition that the book was typeset using the 10th edition of UNIX on a VAX machine, the 3rd edition he says the book was typeset by the author I believe). ‘Accelerated C++’ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo is also written using troff. This book came out last year (2001)
Copyright Ralph Corderoy, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2017.